Natasha S Mauthner
Biographic Data
| ID | 261804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha S Mauthner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauthner |
| SIGNATURE | MAUTHNER N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 647 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology
Over the past two decades sociology, including the sociology of family and personal life, has seen a ‘relational turn’ with a growing body of work seeking to explain the ‘social’ by taking social relations as the primary object of sociological analyses. Relational sociologies theorise relations in social terms as either inter-actions or trans-actions. Inter-actions are relations that bring separate entities together, while trans-actions posit a r…
Toward a Posthumanist Ethics of Qualitative Research in a Big Data Era
The Big Data phenomenon, and its uptake in qualitative research, raises ethical issues around data aggregation, data linkages, and data anonymization as well as concerns around changing meanings and possibilities of informed consent and privacy protection. In this article, I address the ethical issues that arise from Big Data through a posthumanist philosophical framework. The humanist ethics that underpins normative ethical concerns-as outlined …
Data‐Sharing Methods
Data‐sharing is the practice of making research data available to other investigators or institutions for the purposes of social scientific research. Data‐sharing can occur through informal data exchange among researchers, and formal data exchange through data archives and repositories. Discussions of data‐sharing first appeared in the social scientific literature in the early 1960s in the context of two changes: the development of computational …
The past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold’
Peer reviewed
Feminist Research Management in Higher Education in Britain
This article aims to explore the possibilities and ambivalent practices of feminist management in the context of research management in higher education in Britain. Drawing on a reflexive and critical analysis of our experiences of contract research and research management over the past 15 years, we discuss the challenges of putting feminist management principles into practice in team‐based and collaborative research projects. By rendering academ…
Qualitative data preservation and sharing in the social sciences
Over the past decade, an academic debate has developed surrounding qualitative data preservation and sharing in the social sciences, and has been characterised as one between supporters and opponents of this movement. We reframe the debate by suggesting that so‐called ‘opponents’ are not resistant to the principle of data preservation and sharing, but ambivalent about how this principle is being put into practice . Specifically, qualitative resea…
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
This article grapples with the question of ' what can be known?' about research subjects and how we can come to know them. Set against a backdrop of theoretical tensions over the concept of subjectivity in feminist theory, our article makes a three-fold argument. First, we argue that theoretical impasses between critical and constructed subjects can be addressed through the evolving concept of a narrated subject. Second, we suggest that this conc…
Knowledge Once Divided Can Be Hard to Put Together Again
This article critically examines team and collaborative research as an 'academic mode of production'. Our main argument is that while theoretically qualitative social science research is rooted within a postfoundational epistemological paradigm, normative team-based research practices embody foundational principles. Team research relies on a division of labour that creates divisions and hierarchies of knowledge, particularly between researchers w…
Feminist Methodologies and Epistemology
Back to Basics
Whose Data are They Anyway
Social scientists are increasingly encouraged to locate, access and analyse data from data archives worldwide. Although the vast majority of data archives which service the research community deal exclusively with the storage and provision of quantitative data, facilities also exist for the deposit and reuse of qualitative data.While archiving is generally understood as relatively unproblematic by the quantitative research community, there has be…
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
While the importance of being reflexive is acknowledged within social science research, the difficulties, practicalities and methods of doing it are rarely addressed. Thus, the implications of current theoretical and philosophical discussions about reflexivity, epistemology and the construction of knowledge for empirical sociological research practice, specifically the analysis of qualitative data, remain under-developed. Drawing on our doctoral …
My dad hangs out of helicopter doors and takes pictures of oil platforms
Against the backdrop of the acceleration in pace of work and family life over the last decade, and the accompanying intensification of the work-family debate, this paper argues for the need to include children as stakeholders in the work-family debate. The ethnographic study on which this paper is based brings together children, family, work and community to explore interrelationships between workplace change, parental employment and family life …
Family Friendly' Policies and Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry
The paper explores whether key oil and gas companies are expressing awareness of the work–family debate and reports findings from an ongoing three-year study, funded by the ESRC, which provides an account of the work-family interface in relation to the oil and gas industry. Although this paper is informed by our research as a whole, it draws on a specific subset of our data, namely in-depth interviews with human resource personnel in eighteen oil…
The importance of the conditions and relations of project design for the construction of qualitative data
The pressures of funding and publishing requirements often make it difficult for researchers to pay close, detailed and reflexive attention to methods as an integral part of their research work. This paper reports on a project about women's perceptions of health, health risks and osteoporosis which was designed explicitly to explore methodological and epistemological issues as they arose and were renegotiated during the research. Three experience…
Reflections on a Voice-centred Relational Method
It's a Woman's Cry for Help
The two most influential bodies of work on postnatal depression are studies informed by the medical model and feminist analyses. This article begins by reviewing medical and feminist theories, highlighting their contributions to our understanding of postnatal depression as well as their limitations. In particular, clinical studies have focused on the individual mother and her circumstances, while feminist theories have emphasized the sociopolitic…
The Data Are Out There, or Are They? Implications for Archiving and Revisiting Qualitative Data
The usefulness of archived qualitative data has been questioned where contextual information surrounding the conditions of its production is not provided. It has been assumed that, without this background information, the data remain incomplete. By the same token, it has been argued that the provision of such information will repair and complete the dataset for the purpose of generating new findings or theories. We suggest that these arguments st…
Postnatal depression The Significance of Social Contacts Between Mothers
Postnatal depression
I. Towards a Feminist Understanding of `Postnatal Depression
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
While the importance of being reflexive is acknowledged within social science research, the difficulties, practicalities and methods of doing it are rarely addressed. Thus, the implications of current theoretical and philosophical discussions about reflexivity, epistemology and the construction of knowledge for empirical sociological research practice, specifically the analysis of qualitative data, remain under-developed. Drawing on our doctoral …
The Data Are Out There, or Are They? Implications for Archiving and Revisiting Qualitative Data
The usefulness of archived qualitative data has been questioned where contextual information surrounding the conditions of its production is not provided. It has been assumed that, without this background information, the data remain incomplete. By the same token, it has been argued that the provision of such information will repair and complete the dataset for the purpose of generating new findings or theories. We suggest that these arguments st…
Whose Data are They Anyway
Social scientists are increasingly encouraged to locate, access and analyse data from data archives worldwide. Although the vast majority of data archives which service the research community deal exclusively with the storage and provision of quantitative data, facilities also exist for the deposit and reuse of qualitative data.While archiving is generally understood as relatively unproblematic by the quantitative research community, there has be…
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
This article grapples with the question of ' what can be known?' about research subjects and how we can come to know them. Set against a backdrop of theoretical tensions over the concept of subjectivity in feminist theory, our article makes a three-fold argument. First, we argue that theoretical impasses between critical and constructed subjects can be addressed through the evolving concept of a narrated subject. Second, we suggest that this conc…
Knowledge Once Divided Can Be Hard to Put Together Again
This article critically examines team and collaborative research as an 'academic mode of production'. Our main argument is that while theoretically qualitative social science research is rooted within a postfoundational epistemological paradigm, normative team-based research practices embody foundational principles. Team research relies on a division of labour that creates divisions and hierarchies of knowledge, particularly between researchers w…
Feminist Research Management in Higher Education in Britain
This article aims to explore the possibilities and ambivalent practices of feminist management in the context of research management in higher education in Britain. Drawing on a reflexive and critical analysis of our experiences of contract research and research management over the past 15 years, we discuss the challenges of putting feminist management principles into practice in team‐based and collaborative research projects. By rendering academ…
Back to Basics
Family Friendly' Policies and Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry
The paper explores whether key oil and gas companies are expressing awareness of the work–family debate and reports findings from an ongoing three-year study, funded by the ESRC, which provides an account of the work-family interface in relation to the oil and gas industry. Although this paper is informed by our research as a whole, it draws on a specific subset of our data, namely in-depth interviews with human resource personnel in eighteen oil…
The past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold’
Peer reviewed
Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology
Over the past two decades sociology, including the sociology of family and personal life, has seen a ‘relational turn’ with a growing body of work seeking to explain the ‘social’ by taking social relations as the primary object of sociological analyses. Relational sociologies theorise relations in social terms as either inter-actions or trans-actions. Inter-actions are relations that bring separate entities together, while trans-actions posit a r…
Qualitative data preservation and sharing in the social sciences
Over the past decade, an academic debate has developed surrounding qualitative data preservation and sharing in the social sciences, and has been characterised as one between supporters and opponents of this movement. We reframe the debate by suggesting that so‐called ‘opponents’ are not resistant to the principle of data preservation and sharing, but ambivalent about how this principle is being put into practice . Specifically, qualitative resea…
My dad hangs out of helicopter doors and takes pictures of oil platforms
Against the backdrop of the acceleration in pace of work and family life over the last decade, and the accompanying intensification of the work-family debate, this paper argues for the need to include children as stakeholders in the work-family debate. The ethnographic study on which this paper is based brings together children, family, work and community to explore interrelationships between workplace change, parental employment and family life …
It's a Woman's Cry for Help
The two most influential bodies of work on postnatal depression are studies informed by the medical model and feminist analyses. This article begins by reviewing medical and feminist theories, highlighting their contributions to our understanding of postnatal depression as well as their limitations. In particular, clinical studies have focused on the individual mother and her circumstances, while feminist theories have emphasized the sociopolitic…
Postnatal depression The Significance of Social Contacts Between Mothers
Toward a Posthumanist Ethics of Qualitative Research in a Big Data Era
The Big Data phenomenon, and its uptake in qualitative research, raises ethical issues around data aggregation, data linkages, and data anonymization as well as concerns around changing meanings and possibilities of informed consent and privacy protection. In this article, I address the ethical issues that arise from Big Data through a posthumanist philosophical framework. The humanist ethics that underpins normative ethical concerns-as outlined …
Postnatal depression
I. Towards a Feminist Understanding of `Postnatal Depression
Data‐Sharing Methods
Data‐sharing is the practice of making research data available to other investigators or institutions for the purposes of social scientific research. Data‐sharing can occur through informal data exchange among researchers, and formal data exchange through data archives and repositories. Discussions of data‐sharing first appeared in the social scientific literature in the early 1960s in the context of two changes: the development of computational …
The importance of the conditions and relations of project design for the construction of qualitative data
The pressures of funding and publishing requirements often make it difficult for researchers to pay close, detailed and reflexive attention to methods as an integral part of their research work. This paper reports on a project about women's perceptions of health, health risks and osteoporosis which was designed explicitly to explore methodological and epistemological issues as they arose and were renegotiated during the research. Three experience…
I. Towards a Feminist Understanding of `Postnatal Depression
Postnatal depression The Significance of Social Contacts Between Mothers
Postnatal depression
Reflections on a Voice-centred Relational Method
It's a Woman's Cry for Help
The two most influential bodies of work on postnatal depression are studies informed by the medical model and feminist analyses. This article begins by reviewing medical and feminist theories, highlighting their contributions to our understanding of postnatal depression as well as their limitations. In particular, clinical studies have focused on the individual mother and her circumstances, while feminist theories have emphasized the sociopolitic…
The Data Are Out There, or Are They? Implications for Archiving and Revisiting Qualitative Data
The usefulness of archived qualitative data has been questioned where contextual information surrounding the conditions of its production is not provided. It has been assumed that, without this background information, the data remain incomplete. By the same token, it has been argued that the provision of such information will repair and complete the dataset for the purpose of generating new findings or theories. We suggest that these arguments st…
The importance of the conditions and relations of project design for the construction of qualitative data
The pressures of funding and publishing requirements often make it difficult for researchers to pay close, detailed and reflexive attention to methods as an integral part of their research work. This paper reports on a project about women's perceptions of health, health risks and osteoporosis which was designed explicitly to explore methodological and epistemological issues as they arose and were renegotiated during the research. Three experience…
My dad hangs out of helicopter doors and takes pictures of oil platforms
Against the backdrop of the acceleration in pace of work and family life over the last decade, and the accompanying intensification of the work-family debate, this paper argues for the need to include children as stakeholders in the work-family debate. The ethnographic study on which this paper is based brings together children, family, work and community to explore interrelationships between workplace change, parental employment and family life …
Family Friendly' Policies and Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry
The paper explores whether key oil and gas companies are expressing awareness of the work–family debate and reports findings from an ongoing three-year study, funded by the ESRC, which provides an account of the work-family interface in relation to the oil and gas industry. Although this paper is informed by our research as a whole, it draws on a specific subset of our data, namely in-depth interviews with human resource personnel in eighteen oil…
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
While the importance of being reflexive is acknowledged within social science research, the difficulties, practicalities and methods of doing it are rarely addressed. Thus, the implications of current theoretical and philosophical discussions about reflexivity, epistemology and the construction of knowledge for empirical sociological research practice, specifically the analysis of qualitative data, remain under-developed. Drawing on our doctoral …
Whose Data are They Anyway
Social scientists are increasingly encouraged to locate, access and analyse data from data archives worldwide. Although the vast majority of data archives which service the research community deal exclusively with the storage and provision of quantitative data, facilities also exist for the deposit and reuse of qualitative data.While archiving is generally understood as relatively unproblematic by the quantitative research community, there has be…
Back to Basics
Feminist Methodologies and Epistemology
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
This article grapples with the question of ' what can be known?' about research subjects and how we can come to know them. Set against a backdrop of theoretical tensions over the concept of subjectivity in feminist theory, our article makes a three-fold argument. First, we argue that theoretical impasses between critical and constructed subjects can be addressed through the evolving concept of a narrated subject. Second, we suggest that this conc…
Knowledge Once Divided Can Be Hard to Put Together Again
This article critically examines team and collaborative research as an 'academic mode of production'. Our main argument is that while theoretically qualitative social science research is rooted within a postfoundational epistemological paradigm, normative team-based research practices embody foundational principles. Team research relies on a division of labour that creates divisions and hierarchies of knowledge, particularly between researchers w…
Qualitative data preservation and sharing in the social sciences
Over the past decade, an academic debate has developed surrounding qualitative data preservation and sharing in the social sciences, and has been characterised as one between supporters and opponents of this movement. We reframe the debate by suggesting that so‐called ‘opponents’ are not resistant to the principle of data preservation and sharing, but ambivalent about how this principle is being put into practice . Specifically, qualitative resea…
Feminist Research Management in Higher Education in Britain
This article aims to explore the possibilities and ambivalent practices of feminist management in the context of research management in higher education in Britain. Drawing on a reflexive and critical analysis of our experiences of contract research and research management over the past 15 years, we discuss the challenges of putting feminist management principles into practice in team‐based and collaborative research projects. By rendering academ…
The past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold’
Peer reviewed
Data‐Sharing Methods
Data‐sharing is the practice of making research data available to other investigators or institutions for the purposes of social scientific research. Data‐sharing can occur through informal data exchange among researchers, and formal data exchange through data archives and repositories. Discussions of data‐sharing first appeared in the social scientific literature in the early 1960s in the context of two changes: the development of computational …
Toward a Posthumanist Ethics of Qualitative Research in a Big Data Era
The Big Data phenomenon, and its uptake in qualitative research, raises ethical issues around data aggregation, data linkages, and data anonymization as well as concerns around changing meanings and possibilities of informed consent and privacy protection. In this article, I address the ethical issues that arise from Big Data through a posthumanist philosophical framework. The humanist ethics that underpins normative ethical concerns-as outlined …
Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology
Over the past two decades sociology, including the sociology of family and personal life, has seen a ‘relational turn’ with a growing body of work seeking to explain the ‘social’ by taking social relations as the primary object of sociological analyses. Relational sociologies theorise relations in social terms as either inter-actions or trans-actions. Inter-actions are relations that bring separate entities together, while trans-actions posit a r…
Sociology (18 works) · Social science (13 works) · Data Analysis and Archiving (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Law (6 works)