Anne Ryen
Biographic Data
| ID | 138257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Ryen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryen |
| SIGNATURE | RYEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment
This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male gaze, both of which are deeply entrenched in patriarchal power. This perspective positions cosmetic surgery as a disempowering act for women. In riposte, we turn to third wave liberal feminist ideas to engage with the narrative…
Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret
Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored the individual’s personal motivations and experiences of her action and choice with regards to aesthetic surgery. By focusing on subjective experience, alternative insights can be gained on the cosmetic procedure(s) and on ho…
A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe
HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it imposes new Western prevention, treatment, and health-management methods over long-held African traditions. The reality of the “Western” HIV epidemic, and its impact on the “African” ordinary everyday life, demands that the infe…
Fighting the Crocodiles: Immigrant Students and Their Perilous Routes at Campus
This article is about what institutional frameworks do to our immigrant students, or how such frames may open or close opportunities. As my text unfolds, my students will speak. What stories do they provide us with? and What stories pass unnoticed? This text is also about voice and academic texts as muted lives, or as flat versions on a felt board
Femicide and Culture
Categories and orthodoxies in studies on culture and femicide: An ethno-informed route to knowledge
This article is a methodological discussion, in which I argue that to study complex phenomena such as culture and femicide calls for other approaches other than the dominant interview and survey studies. By their focus on the contextual, the interactional and the process itself, and by rejecting language as referential and transparent, ethno-informed approaches better recognize and capture this complexity. To see the interview as a social interac…
Femicide: Call for papers
Indigenous Research and Romantic Nationalism
In recent years, “indigenous research” and “indigenous methods” have become prominent themes in the general field of qualitative methodology. These ideas and their implications raise serious questions for the wider conduct of social research. We will outline some of those ideas, subjecting them to scrutiny, and ultimately using them to question the rise of Romanticism in contemporary social methodology. We develop these ideas to question the cont…
Self-efficacy in protecting oneself against HIV transmission: A qualitative study of female university students in Malawi
This article deals with the complexity of health behaviour from a self-efficacy perspective, and shows the naivety in assuming knowledge as the main guide to better protection against HIV. The authors accentuate the importance of local knowledge when developing health strategies as in the case of protection against HIV, in this case for female university students in Malawi. Being part of a transition period, these students have to handle complex …
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Introduction to the Special Issue: What qualitative research makes us see
This volume of the Journal of Comparative Social Work offers six highly interesting articles, all of which employ methods and analytic strategies not so frequently used in both general as well as in social work. Apart from showing us how to use them, they also illustrate well what qualitative research offers to see in our research. Social reality is a most complex matter, and it is also contested. Both our choice of method and our choice of analy…
The Inefficiency of Knowledge and the Limits of Explanations; the Necessity of Critique
July 22nd 2011 Norway experienced the deadliest terror attack in the country since World War II. One man, Anders Behring Breivik, ABB (33), blew up the Governmental Headquarters in our capital Oslo, killing eight people. Later that day he shot and killed, one by one, 69 youths attending a summer camp at Utøya, and wounded many others. His target was the Norwegian Labour Party, its most prominent and influential members, and those who one day migh…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Exploring or exporting? Qualitative methods in times of globalisation
Europeanism, westernism and methodological imperialism all refer to the classic criticism of Western research in non-Western contexts. Though I welcome the debate, I find arguments based on simple binary oppositions and descriptions problematic. This debate is better positioned as one about the quality of qualitative research. With reference to the criticism I ask if contemporary qualitative research is stuck in old problems. Based on my ethnogra…
The Promise
Managing the decline of globalized methodology
In his preface to the World Social Science Report (ISSC, 2010) Gudmund Hernes, the President of the International Social Science Council argues that the contemporary confluence of crises generates
Company welfare and social work ethics: A space for social work
This article deals with company welfare and social work ethics. If social work is concerned with welfare and distributional issues, we would assume company welfare to be an issue of great relevance to social workers, so why do we not come across any social workers in our fieldwork? This calls for the simple question “where do social workers work?” or rather “how come social workers do not work in private companies?” We explore into the combinatio…
Hi, Madam, I have a small question.” Teaching QM online: Guide to a successful cross-cultural master-course
A few years ago Centre of Development Studies at my Faculty, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, started an online Master’s Programme in Development Management. The programme was implemented by a network of universities from the North (University of Agder/UiA) and the South (Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana) recruiting students from across the world. The evaluation is very positive characterising it as a big success. I will now …
Working Across
Editorial
The Credibility of Qualitative Research: Editorial
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Wading the Field with My Key Informant: Exploring Field Relations
Entering and staying on in the field or rather avoiding being kicked out are the two classic ethnographic challenges. The rather positivist nature of textbook guidance on dos and don’ts in fieldwork in general and in delicate issues in particular (for researchers` dilemmas in the field see Ryen 2002), tend to recommend a gentle, middle-class (rather female) interactional style. This gaze suffers from being both researcher-focused (cf.Fine 1994 on…
Enacting their Business Environments: Asian Entrepreneurs in East Africa
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to explaining the outstanding business success among the Asian diaspora in East Africa as compared to the native African population. Taking an actor's point of view, the business context is analysed against a theoretical background of alien entrepreneurship and a presentation of the history of Asians in the region. A main argument is that the alien entrepreneurs are in a better position to enact t…
Enacting their Business Environments: Asian Entrepreneurs in East Africa
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Marking Boundaries: Culture as Category Work
Contemporary social science is acutely aware of what happens when we mark or police boundaries. Cross-cultural research highlights such issues. Face-to-face interviews and e-mail exchanges with Asian businessmen appeared to suggest clear boundaries between Tanzanian African and Asian "culture." However, such ready understanding raises two further issues. First, boundary marking might fit with a colonial methodology used by the early anthropologis…
Marking Boundaries: Culture as Category Work
Contemporary social science is acutely aware of what happens when we mark or police boundaries. Cross-cultural research highlights such issues. Face-to-face interviews and e-mail exchanges with Asian businessmen appeared to suggest clear boundaries between Tanzanian African and Asian "culture." However, such ready understanding raises two further issues. First, boundary marking might fit with a colonial methodology used by the early anthropologis…
Exploring or exporting? Qualitative methods in times of globalisation
Europeanism, westernism and methodological imperialism all refer to the classic criticism of Western research in non-Western contexts. Though I welcome the debate, I find arguments based on simple binary oppositions and descriptions problematic. This debate is better positioned as one about the quality of qualitative research. With reference to the criticism I ask if contemporary qualitative research is stuck in old problems. Based on my ethnogra…
Enacting their Business Environments: Asian Entrepreneurs in East Africa
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Managing the decline of globalized methodology
In his preface to the World Social Science Report (ISSC, 2010) Gudmund Hernes, the President of the International Social Science Council argues that the contemporary confluence of crises generates
Indigenous Research and Romantic Nationalism
In recent years, “indigenous research” and “indigenous methods” have become prominent themes in the general field of qualitative methodology. These ideas and their implications raise serious questions for the wider conduct of social research. We will outline some of those ideas, subjecting them to scrutiny, and ultimately using them to question the rise of Romanticism in contemporary social methodology. We develop these ideas to question the cont…
Self-efficacy in protecting oneself against HIV transmission: A qualitative study of female university students in Malawi
This article deals with the complexity of health behaviour from a self-efficacy perspective, and shows the naivety in assuming knowledge as the main guide to better protection against HIV. The authors accentuate the importance of local knowledge when developing health strategies as in the case of protection against HIV, in this case for female university students in Malawi. Being part of a transition period, these students have to handle complex …
The Inefficiency of Knowledge and the Limits of Explanations; the Necessity of Critique
July 22nd 2011 Norway experienced the deadliest terror attack in the country since World War II. One man, Anders Behring Breivik, ABB (33), blew up the Governmental Headquarters in our capital Oslo, killing eight people. Later that day he shot and killed, one by one, 69 youths attending a summer camp at Utøya, and wounded many others. His target was the Norwegian Labour Party, its most prominent and influential members, and those who one day migh…
Wading the Field with My Key Informant: Exploring Field Relations
Entering and staying on in the field or rather avoiding being kicked out are the two classic ethnographic challenges. The rather positivist nature of textbook guidance on dos and don’ts in fieldwork in general and in delicate issues in particular (for researchers` dilemmas in the field see Ryen 2002), tend to recommend a gentle, middle-class (rather female) interactional style. This gaze suffers from being both researcher-focused (cf.Fine 1994 on…
Marking Boundaries: Culture as Category Work
Contemporary social science is acutely aware of what happens when we mark or police boundaries. Cross-cultural research highlights such issues. Face-to-face interviews and e-mail exchanges with Asian businessmen appeared to suggest clear boundaries between Tanzanian African and Asian "culture." However, such ready understanding raises two further issues. First, boundary marking might fit with a colonial methodology used by the early anthropologis…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Enacting their Business Environments: Asian Entrepreneurs in East Africa
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to explaining the outstanding business success among the Asian diaspora in East Africa as compared to the native African population. Taking an actor's point of view, the business context is analysed against a theoretical background of alien entrepreneurship and a presentation of the history of Asians in the region. A main argument is that the alien entrepreneurs are in a better position to enact t…
Enacting their Business Environments: Asian Entrepreneurs in East Africa
The Credibility of Qualitative Research: Editorial
IV V I Is ss su ue e 3 3 w ww ww w. .q qu ua al li it ta at ti iv ve es so oc ci io ol lo og gy yr re ev vi ie ew w. .o or rg g
Wading the Field with My Key Informant: Exploring Field Relations
Entering and staying on in the field or rather avoiding being kicked out are the two classic ethnographic challenges. The rather positivist nature of textbook guidance on dos and don’ts in fieldwork in general and in delicate issues in particular (for researchers` dilemmas in the field see Ryen 2002), tend to recommend a gentle, middle-class (rather female) interactional style. This gaze suffers from being both researcher-focused (cf.Fine 1994 on…
Hi, Madam, I have a small question.” Teaching QM online: Guide to a successful cross-cultural master-course
A few years ago Centre of Development Studies at my Faculty, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, started an online Master’s Programme in Development Management. The programme was implemented by a network of universities from the North (University of Agder/UiA) and the South (Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana) recruiting students from across the world. The evaluation is very positive characterising it as a big success. I will now …
Working Across
Editorial
Company welfare and social work ethics: A space for social work
This article deals with company welfare and social work ethics. If social work is concerned with welfare and distributional issues, we would assume company welfare to be an issue of great relevance to social workers, so why do we not come across any social workers in our fieldwork? This calls for the simple question “where do social workers work?” or rather “how come social workers do not work in private companies?” We explore into the combinatio…
Exploring or exporting? Qualitative methods in times of globalisation
Europeanism, westernism and methodological imperialism all refer to the classic criticism of Western research in non-Western contexts. Though I welcome the debate, I find arguments based on simple binary oppositions and descriptions problematic. This debate is better positioned as one about the quality of qualitative research. With reference to the criticism I ask if contemporary qualitative research is stuck in old problems. Based on my ethnogra…
The Promise
Managing the decline of globalized methodology
In his preface to the World Social Science Report (ISSC, 2010) Gudmund Hernes, the President of the International Social Science Council argues that the contemporary confluence of crises generates
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Introduction to the Special Issue: What qualitative research makes us see
This volume of the Journal of Comparative Social Work offers six highly interesting articles, all of which employ methods and analytic strategies not so frequently used in both general as well as in social work. Apart from showing us how to use them, they also illustrate well what qualitative research offers to see in our research. Social reality is a most complex matter, and it is also contested. Both our choice of method and our choice of analy…
The Inefficiency of Knowledge and the Limits of Explanations; the Necessity of Critique
July 22nd 2011 Norway experienced the deadliest terror attack in the country since World War II. One man, Anders Behring Breivik, ABB (33), blew up the Governmental Headquarters in our capital Oslo, killing eight people. Later that day he shot and killed, one by one, 69 youths attending a summer camp at Utøya, and wounded many others. His target was the Norwegian Labour Party, its most prominent and influential members, and those who one day migh…
Self-efficacy in protecting oneself against HIV transmission: A qualitative study of female university students in Malawi
This article deals with the complexity of health behaviour from a self-efficacy perspective, and shows the naivety in assuming knowledge as the main guide to better protection against HIV. The authors accentuate the importance of local knowledge when developing health strategies as in the case of protection against HIV, in this case for female university students in Malawi. Being part of a transition period, these students have to handle complex …
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Indigenous Research and Romantic Nationalism
In recent years, “indigenous research” and “indigenous methods” have become prominent themes in the general field of qualitative methodology. These ideas and their implications raise serious questions for the wider conduct of social research. We will outline some of those ideas, subjecting them to scrutiny, and ultimately using them to question the rise of Romanticism in contemporary social methodology. We develop these ideas to question the cont…
Femicide: Call for papers
Femicide and Culture
Categories and orthodoxies in studies on culture and femicide: An ethno-informed route to knowledge
This article is a methodological discussion, in which I argue that to study complex phenomena such as culture and femicide calls for other approaches other than the dominant interview and survey studies. By their focus on the contextual, the interactional and the process itself, and by rejecting language as referential and transparent, ethno-informed approaches better recognize and capture this complexity. To see the interview as a social interac…
Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment
This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male gaze, both of which are deeply entrenched in patriarchal power. This perspective positions cosmetic surgery as a disempowering act for women. In riposte, we turn to third wave liberal feminist ideas to engage with the narrative…
Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret
Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored the individual’s personal motivations and experiences of her action and choice with regards to aesthetic surgery. By focusing on subjective experience, alternative insights can be gained on the cosmetic procedure(s) and on ho…
A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe
HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it imposes new Western prevention, treatment, and health-management methods over long-held African traditions. The reality of the “Western” HIV epidemic, and its impact on the “African” ordinary everyday life, demands that the infe…
Fighting the Crocodiles: Immigrant Students and Their Perilous Routes at Campus
This article is about what institutional frameworks do to our immigrant students, or how such frames may open or close opportunities. As my text unfolds, my students will speak. What stories do they provide us with? and What stories pass unnoticed? This text is also about voice and academic texts as muted lives, or as flat versions on a felt board
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)