Amy K Way
Biographic Data
| ID | 192373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy K Way |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Way |
| SIGNATURE | WAY A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8085-0352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visceral imprints on our minds, bodies and spirits
Purpose This paper examines visceral imprints in fieldwork, or moments that provoke an instinctive response – initially physically and emotionally – often with residual mental and spiritual responses over time. Design/methodology/approach In a multi-voiced text, we analyze a combined 56 years of field experiences in a variety of organizations, including municipal courtrooms, airport security checkpoints, a non-profit girls' running organization, …
Subjects in mirror are closer than they appear
Although I recognize that engaged scholarship is conducted across a range of ontological and epistemological perspectives (as demonstrated by this forum), engaged practice for me has always been gr
Time, space and ambiguity across the Coral SeaConnections across the Coral Sea, produced in partnership with ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (Cabah) and Queensland Mu…
Connections across the Coral Sea occupies a modest gallery space just inside the entrance to the Queensland Museum. It seeks to explore the rich cultures and trading relationships of ancient First Nations communities of Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait and the northeast coast of Queensland
Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics
In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical care, USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized when they testified at his sentencing hearing and detailed the abuse. In the wake of the Nassar verdict, gymnastics and other youth sports organizations have come under fire for abusive practices that victimize young athletes. Scholars have recently argued for an approach to…
Displacing history, shifting paradigms
This article traces the formalisation of anthropology in Australia from 1880 to 1920, during which time the ‘discipline’ shifted from a framework of developmental evolution to one of structural functionalism. It argues that this paradigm shift necessitated an elimination of anthropology’s once-foundational logic of Aboriginal antiquity: severed, first, from a paired notion of human primitivity, then removed altogether. While historians acknowledg…
Working-class wisdom
Young people spend prodigious time online cultivating identities, relationships, and values, however, most research about young people's experiences online fails to consider how socioeconomic status shapes young people's engagement online. Drawing on communication theory about meaning-making, impression management, and trends toward prosumption, we examine how social class, informs young peoples' engagement online. Interviews and focus groups wit…
Reimagining Qualitative Analysis and Writing via a Comparative Constructed Focus Group Method
This essay explores our journey to a new comparative qualitative data analysis and writing method. In attempting to compare our separate qualitative youth work-life research, our analysis was stymied by traditional qualitative coding, writing conventions, and comparison norms. Our comparative research literature review revealed restrictions for our goals and ultimately inspired our new analysis and writing method called a “comparative constructed…
Dialogic Interviewing and Flickers of Transformation
This article identifies practices in qualitative interviews that evoke research participant reflexivity and change. By engaging interviews in a dialogic manner, researchers can encourage participant perspective-taking and non-judgmental involvement that can lead to flickers of transformation. The study draws on empirical material from three different projects to locate critical incidents of dialogic interviewing. We propose a typology of dialogic…
The curious case of Colleen LaRose
This article examines the case of the American terrorist Colleen LaRose, known as ‘JihadJane’. By employing social theories and psychological approaches to terrorism, the authors argue that the online radicalization of marginalized individuals like LaRose must be understood through personal histories and existing social and cultural tensions, rather than the seductive power of extremist ideologies. Therefore, in the age of new media, countering t…
Islamist Feminism
This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political activists for the Islamic State. The two Islamist leaders who form the primary focus of this analysis are Zaynab al-Ghazali (d. 2005) of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Nadia Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Society. Our analysis reveals the existence of…
Dialogic Interviewing and Flickers of Transformation
This article identifies practices in qualitative interviews that evoke research participant reflexivity and change. By engaging interviews in a dialogic manner, researchers can encourage participant perspective-taking and non-judgmental involvement that can lead to flickers of transformation. The study draws on empirical material from three different projects to locate critical incidents of dialogic interviewing. We propose a typology of dialogic…
Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics
In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical care, USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized when they testified at his sentencing hearing and detailed the abuse. In the wake of the Nassar verdict, gymnastics and other youth sports organizations have come under fire for abusive practices that victimize young athletes. Scholars have recently argued for an approach to…
The curious case of Colleen LaRose
This article examines the case of the American terrorist Colleen LaRose, known as ‘JihadJane’. By employing social theories and psychological approaches to terrorism, the authors argue that the online radicalization of marginalized individuals like LaRose must be understood through personal histories and existing social and cultural tensions, rather than the seductive power of extremist ideologies. Therefore, in the age of new media, countering t…
Islamist Feminism
This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political activists for the Islamic State. The two Islamist leaders who form the primary focus of this analysis are Zaynab al-Ghazali (d. 2005) of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Nadia Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Society. Our analysis reveals the existence of…
Displacing history, shifting paradigms
This article traces the formalisation of anthropology in Australia from 1880 to 1920, during which time the ‘discipline’ shifted from a framework of developmental evolution to one of structural functionalism. It argues that this paradigm shift necessitated an elimination of anthropology’s once-foundational logic of Aboriginal antiquity: severed, first, from a paired notion of human primitivity, then removed altogether. While historians acknowledg…
Islamist Feminism
This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political activists for the Islamic State. The two Islamist leaders who form the primary focus of this analysis are Zaynab al-Ghazali (d. 2005) of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Nadia Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Society. Our analysis reveals the existence of…
The curious case of Colleen LaRose
This article examines the case of the American terrorist Colleen LaRose, known as ‘JihadJane’. By employing social theories and psychological approaches to terrorism, the authors argue that the online radicalization of marginalized individuals like LaRose must be understood through personal histories and existing social and cultural tensions, rather than the seductive power of extremist ideologies. Therefore, in the age of new media, countering t…
Dialogic Interviewing and Flickers of Transformation
This article identifies practices in qualitative interviews that evoke research participant reflexivity and change. By engaging interviews in a dialogic manner, researchers can encourage participant perspective-taking and non-judgmental involvement that can lead to flickers of transformation. The study draws on empirical material from three different projects to locate critical incidents of dialogic interviewing. We propose a typology of dialogic…
Working-class wisdom
Young people spend prodigious time online cultivating identities, relationships, and values, however, most research about young people's experiences online fails to consider how socioeconomic status shapes young people's engagement online. Drawing on communication theory about meaning-making, impression management, and trends toward prosumption, we examine how social class, informs young peoples' engagement online. Interviews and focus groups wit…
Reimagining Qualitative Analysis and Writing via a Comparative Constructed Focus Group Method
This essay explores our journey to a new comparative qualitative data analysis and writing method. In attempting to compare our separate qualitative youth work-life research, our analysis was stymied by traditional qualitative coding, writing conventions, and comparison norms. Our comparative research literature review revealed restrictions for our goals and ultimately inspired our new analysis and writing method called a “comparative constructed…
Displacing history, shifting paradigms
This article traces the formalisation of anthropology in Australia from 1880 to 1920, during which time the ‘discipline’ shifted from a framework of developmental evolution to one of structural functionalism. It argues that this paradigm shift necessitated an elimination of anthropology’s once-foundational logic of Aboriginal antiquity: severed, first, from a paired notion of human primitivity, then removed altogether. While historians acknowledg…
Time, space and ambiguity across the Coral SeaConnections across the Coral Sea, produced in partnership with ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (Cabah) and Queensland Mu…
Connections across the Coral Sea occupies a modest gallery space just inside the entrance to the Queensland Museum. It seeks to explore the rich cultures and trading relationships of ancient First Nations communities of Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait and the northeast coast of Queensland
Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics
In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical care, USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized when they testified at his sentencing hearing and detailed the abuse. In the wake of the Nassar verdict, gymnastics and other youth sports organizations have come under fire for abusive practices that victimize young athletes. Scholars have recently argued for an approach to…
Subjects in mirror are closer than they appear
Although I recognize that engaged scholarship is conducted across a range of ontological and epistemological perspectives (as demonstrated by this forum), engaged practice for me has always been gr
Visceral imprints on our minds, bodies and spirits
Purpose This paper examines visceral imprints in fieldwork, or moments that provoke an instinctive response – initially physically and emotionally – often with residual mental and spiritual responses over time. Design/methodology/approach In a multi-voiced text, we analyze a combined 56 years of field experiences in a variety of organizations, including municipal courtrooms, airport security checkpoints, a non-profit girls' running organization, …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)