Jared Ragland
Biographic Data
| ID | 188301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jared Ragland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jared |
| FAMILY NAME | Ragland |
| SIGNATURE | RAGLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Being Better People: Drug Using Careers and Peyote
Our aim is to understand how narratives relating to personal identities and specific drugs shape people’s drug using careers. To do this, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography of people who used peyote in ceremonial contexts in the Southern United States. We found that the desire to become better people plot stories at each stage of their careers. The hope of positive personal change (e.g. heal trauma or break addiction) often motivates decisi…
Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics
Narrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. We find that participants define peyote as an ‘earth medicine’ that helps with healing (physical, spiritual and psychological) and thus sh…
Protecting Stories: How Symbolic Boundaries Reduce Victimization and Harmful Drug Use
Symbolic boundaries are used for establishing narrative identities and have critical impact on behavior and interpersonal interactions. Using data from a photo-ethnography of people who use methamphetamine in Alabama we show how women use stories and images to draw symbolic boundaries between themselves and others. These boundaries made sense of their meth use, but also guided behavior, controlled drug use, and aided in negotiating personal relat…
Using Photographs to Engage with Participants: A Practical Guide for Photo-Elicitation Interviews to Study Crime and Deviance
Photo elicitation interviews (PEIs) are a means to solicit responses, reactions, and insights from participants by using photographs or other images as stimuli during interviews. Such styles of interviewing are consistent with feminist and critical methodologies that promote empowering participants by providing a means to direct the research and shape how they are portrayed. Although it is an impactful method, PEIs are still relatively uncommon w…
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence
While many of the motives people provide for using drugs transcend gender, there are also notable gendered differences. These differences in motive talk aid in stigma management, shape gender performances, and can encourage or constrain behavior. Using data from a photoethnography with 52 people who use methamphetamine in rural Alabama, we find that men and women articulate their motives for drug use in distinctly gendered ways. Most notably, men…
Changing Narratives of Intimate Partner Violence: A Longitudinal Photo-Ethnography
We explore how women’s narratives of abuse change, including narratives of self as well as narratives of their abusers. We draw on experiences from a photoethnography of people living in rural Alabama who use methamphetamine. The use of photographs taken throughout the project aid in both the representation of the women as well as in data collection (through photo-elicitation interviews). While we draw on the overall experiences from the project,…
Symbolic perceptions of methamphetamine: Differentiating between ice and shake
Photo-Elicitation Interviews with Vulnerable Populations: Practical and Ethical Considerations
Photo-elicitation is a qualitative interview technique where researchers solicit responses, reactions, and insights from participants by using photographs or other images as stimuli. Images can be researcher-generated or participant-generated and each has particular benefits and challenges. Though not new, the use of images within criminology is an underused technique. In this paper we advocate the use of photo-elicitation techniques suggesting t…
Considering the Implicit Meanings in Photographs in Narrative Criminology
Photo-Elicitation Interviews with Vulnerable Populations: Practical and Ethical Considerations
Photo-elicitation is a qualitative interview technique where researchers solicit responses, reactions, and insights from participants by using photographs or other images as stimuli. Images can be researcher-generated or participant-generated and each has particular benefits and challenges. Though not new, the use of images within criminology is an underused technique. In this paper we advocate the use of photo-elicitation techniques suggesting t…
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence
While many of the motives people provide for using drugs transcend gender, there are also notable gendered differences. These differences in motive talk aid in stigma management, shape gender performances, and can encourage or constrain behavior. Using data from a photoethnography with 52 people who use methamphetamine in rural Alabama, we find that men and women articulate their motives for drug use in distinctly gendered ways. Most notably, men…
Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics
Narrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. We find that participants define peyote as an ‘earth medicine’ that helps with healing (physical, spiritual and psychological) and thus sh…
Considering the Implicit Meanings in Photographs in Narrative Criminology
Considering the Implicit Meanings in Photographs in Narrative Criminology
Symbolic perceptions of methamphetamine: Differentiating between ice and shake
Photo-Elicitation Interviews with Vulnerable Populations: Practical and Ethical Considerations
Photo-elicitation is a qualitative interview technique where researchers solicit responses, reactions, and insights from participants by using photographs or other images as stimuli. Images can be researcher-generated or participant-generated and each has particular benefits and challenges. Though not new, the use of images within criminology is an underused technique. In this paper we advocate the use of photo-elicitation techniques suggesting t…
Changing Narratives of Intimate Partner Violence: A Longitudinal Photo-Ethnography
We explore how women’s narratives of abuse change, including narratives of self as well as narratives of their abusers. We draw on experiences from a photoethnography of people living in rural Alabama who use methamphetamine. The use of photographs taken throughout the project aid in both the representation of the women as well as in data collection (through photo-elicitation interviews). While we draw on the overall experiences from the project,…
Using Photographs to Engage with Participants: A Practical Guide for Photo-Elicitation Interviews to Study Crime and Deviance
Photo elicitation interviews (PEIs) are a means to solicit responses, reactions, and insights from participants by using photographs or other images as stimuli during interviews. Such styles of interviewing are consistent with feminist and critical methodologies that promote empowering participants by providing a means to direct the research and shape how they are portrayed. Although it is an impactful method, PEIs are still relatively uncommon w…
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence
While many of the motives people provide for using drugs transcend gender, there are also notable gendered differences. These differences in motive talk aid in stigma management, shape gender performances, and can encourage or constrain behavior. Using data from a photoethnography with 52 people who use methamphetamine in rural Alabama, we find that men and women articulate their motives for drug use in distinctly gendered ways. Most notably, men…
Protecting Stories: How Symbolic Boundaries Reduce Victimization and Harmful Drug Use
Symbolic boundaries are used for establishing narrative identities and have critical impact on behavior and interpersonal interactions. Using data from a photo-ethnography of people who use methamphetamine in Alabama we show how women use stories and images to draw symbolic boundaries between themselves and others. These boundaries made sense of their meth use, but also guided behavior, controlled drug use, and aided in negotiating personal relat…
Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics
Narrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. We find that participants define peyote as an ‘earth medicine’ that helps with healing (physical, spiritual and psychological) and thus sh…
Being Better People: Drug Using Careers and Peyote
Our aim is to understand how narratives relating to personal identities and specific drugs shape people’s drug using careers. To do this, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography of people who used peyote in ceremonial contexts in the Southern United States. We found that the desire to become better people plot stories at each stage of their careers. The hope of positive personal change (e.g. heal trauma or break addiction) often motivates decisi…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works)