Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans
Biographic Data
| ID | 6609930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edgar |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez-Dorans |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ-DORANS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3863-9646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mi amigo Giovanni's Death , a digital performance of a friendship that keeps on living
Mi amigo Giovanni's Death is a digital autoethnographic performance that explores the themes of friendship, love and grief in a Zoom environment that presents a paradox of physical absence while experiencing psychological presence. The play follows Elliot's journey as he grapples with the loss of his friend and former lover, Giovanni. Through a series of episodes of their lives together represented in dialogues and musical numbers, the play explo…
He Kept Me Safe: A play on intimate partner violence amongst gay and bisexual men
He Kept Me Safe is a multi-actor theatre play shedding light on the experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) amongst gay and bisexual men (GBM). The play is based on qualitative research conducted with 10 GBM survivors in Scotland using a narrative inquiry approach, allowing participants to authentically recount their IPV experiences. Subsequently, using narrative portraiture, the interview transcripts were transformed into a script featuri…
‘There is Something Missing Out There…’: A Performative Portrait Approach to Understanding the Experience of Living with Dementia
People with dementia (PwD) often face symptoms that influence their memories and capabilities to express themselves meaningfully. These symptoms make it particularly challenging for qualitative researchers to capture and demonstrate PwD's complex experiences with the traditional reliance on textual outputs. This paper offers a novel approach through performative portraiture to demonstrate and argue that the use of this approach is needed as an al…
Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research
Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research offers an analytical approach to qualitative data. Through narrative portraiture, research findings can be contextualised in broader social narratives without losing sight of the unique personal qualities of the research encounter. Drawing a parallel between the artistic work of a portrait maker in depicting a subject – sometimes an object – and the work of the researcher in exploring people’s experienc…
Qualitative Inquiry, Activism, the Academy, and the Infinite Game: An Introduction to the Special Issue
This is the first of two special issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. This first issue focuses upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), the second on activism in the processes of research itself and activism beyond the academy, in the world. Two issues with different themes, but the overlaps and conversations between them are both obvious and significant: inquiry is part of, rooted in, t…
‘Already Given Over’: Activism in Inquiry and in the World
This is the second of two part-issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. The first focused upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), and this second focuses upon activism in the processes of research itself and activism beyond the academy, in the world. Drawing upon Butler’s claim that we are always already, from the outset, ‘given over’ to the human, non-human and more-than-human other, we ar…
The Confluence of Us
This essay explores gay men's identities as processes of creative-relational construction of the self. I problematize the common sex-centered conception of being gay as “I am gay because I have sex with men.” Bringing together Paul Ricœur's work on identity as autobiography, Audre Lorde's concept of the erotic as a constructive force, and Derek Greenfield's understanding of relational orientation, in the light of an interview with Manoel, a young…
Making narrative portraits: A methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’
This paper proposes the method of ‘narrative portraiture’, which, located within the wider field of narrative studies, offers an analytical tool to narrative data. Two research projects, one on disability and one on identity, are used to illustrate how the method can be applied. While the paper will focus on the methodological benefits and limitations of the approach, throughout the article we also highlight the ethical concern of representation.…
With our Clipped Wings: A research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture
With our Clipped Wings is a performance that showcases the research findings of the doctoral research project “Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships.” The performance delivers compelling narratives through which participants in this research described in their own words what being gay means to them. It offers an intimate opportunity to observe the ways in which gay men have been trapped i…
The Maltese cactus: An autoethnography of the colonization of desire
This article presents an autoethnographic account of an encounter between two men – a Mexican scholar and a British artist – who met in Malta, to examine how post-colonialism influences the seemingly personal experience of erotic desire. The author, a man of indigenous descent, explores how his erotic attraction interweaved with powerful dynamics that were the product of the other man’s European cultural background. He problematizes this attracti…
I'm So Glad I Came, but I Can't Wait to Leave
Can a theatre play provide actors and audiences with a feeling of being at home? This article is an autoethnographic work that addresses how the author finds, in his work directing the research-based theatre play Heavier than Air devised by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones, a self-identification with its queer characters. Describing it as a play that explicitly and implicitly welcomes people to be queer and to tell their stories, the author ana…
Reflexivity and ethical research practice while interviewing on sexual topics
Reflexivity is a multimodal research feature that relies on the researcher’s subjectivity and self-awareness. This paper discusses uses of reflexivity when carrying out qualitative in-depth interviews on sexual topics. Through extracts of a challenging interview, where the challenge comes in the form of sexualised provocation from one man to another, this paper considers the benefits of using reflexivity to address emerging complexities in the in…
Making narrative portraits: A methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’
This paper proposes the method of ‘narrative portraiture’, which, located within the wider field of narrative studies, offers an analytical tool to narrative data. Two research projects, one on disability and one on identity, are used to illustrate how the method can be applied. While the paper will focus on the methodological benefits and limitations of the approach, throughout the article we also highlight the ethical concern of representation.…
Reflexivity and ethical research practice while interviewing on sexual topics
Reflexivity is a multimodal research feature that relies on the researcher’s subjectivity and self-awareness. This paper discusses uses of reflexivity when carrying out qualitative in-depth interviews on sexual topics. Through extracts of a challenging interview, where the challenge comes in the form of sexualised provocation from one man to another, this paper considers the benefits of using reflexivity to address emerging complexities in the in…
The Maltese cactus: An autoethnography of the colonization of desire
This article presents an autoethnographic account of an encounter between two men – a Mexican scholar and a British artist – who met in Malta, to examine how post-colonialism influences the seemingly personal experience of erotic desire. The author, a man of indigenous descent, explores how his erotic attraction interweaved with powerful dynamics that were the product of the other man’s European cultural background. He problematizes this attracti…
I'm So Glad I Came, but I Can't Wait to Leave
Can a theatre play provide actors and audiences with a feeling of being at home? This article is an autoethnographic work that addresses how the author finds, in his work directing the research-based theatre play Heavier than Air devised by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones, a self-identification with its queer characters. Describing it as a play that explicitly and implicitly welcomes people to be queer and to tell their stories, the author ana…
Reflexivity and ethical research practice while interviewing on sexual topics
Reflexivity is a multimodal research feature that relies on the researcher’s subjectivity and self-awareness. This paper discusses uses of reflexivity when carrying out qualitative in-depth interviews on sexual topics. Through extracts of a challenging interview, where the challenge comes in the form of sexualised provocation from one man to another, this paper considers the benefits of using reflexivity to address emerging complexities in the in…
The Maltese cactus: An autoethnography of the colonization of desire
This article presents an autoethnographic account of an encounter between two men – a Mexican scholar and a British artist – who met in Malta, to examine how post-colonialism influences the seemingly personal experience of erotic desire. The author, a man of indigenous descent, explores how his erotic attraction interweaved with powerful dynamics that were the product of the other man’s European cultural background. He problematizes this attracti…
The Confluence of Us
This essay explores gay men's identities as processes of creative-relational construction of the self. I problematize the common sex-centered conception of being gay as “I am gay because I have sex with men.” Bringing together Paul Ricœur's work on identity as autobiography, Audre Lorde's concept of the erotic as a constructive force, and Derek Greenfield's understanding of relational orientation, in the light of an interview with Manoel, a young…
Making narrative portraits: A methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’
This paper proposes the method of ‘narrative portraiture’, which, located within the wider field of narrative studies, offers an analytical tool to narrative data. Two research projects, one on disability and one on identity, are used to illustrate how the method can be applied. While the paper will focus on the methodological benefits and limitations of the approach, throughout the article we also highlight the ethical concern of representation.…
With our Clipped Wings: A research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture
With our Clipped Wings is a performance that showcases the research findings of the doctoral research project “Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships.” The performance delivers compelling narratives through which participants in this research described in their own words what being gay means to them. It offers an intimate opportunity to observe the ways in which gay men have been trapped i…
Qualitative Inquiry, Activism, the Academy, and the Infinite Game: An Introduction to the Special Issue
This is the first of two special issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. This first issue focuses upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), the second on activism in the processes of research itself and activism beyond the academy, in the world. Two issues with different themes, but the overlaps and conversations between them are both obvious and significant: inquiry is part of, rooted in, t…
‘Already Given Over’: Activism in Inquiry and in the World
This is the second of two part-issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. The first focused upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), and this second focuses upon activism in the processes of research itself and activism beyond the academy, in the world. Drawing upon Butler’s claim that we are always already, from the outset, ‘given over’ to the human, non-human and more-than-human other, we ar…
Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research
Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research offers an analytical approach to qualitative data. Through narrative portraiture, research findings can be contextualised in broader social narratives without losing sight of the unique personal qualities of the research encounter. Drawing a parallel between the artistic work of a portrait maker in depicting a subject – sometimes an object – and the work of the researcher in exploring people’s experienc…
‘There is Something Missing Out There…’: A Performative Portrait Approach to Understanding the Experience of Living with Dementia
People with dementia (PwD) often face symptoms that influence their memories and capabilities to express themselves meaningfully. These symptoms make it particularly challenging for qualitative researchers to capture and demonstrate PwD's complex experiences with the traditional reliance on textual outputs. This paper offers a novel approach through performative portraiture to demonstrate and argue that the use of this approach is needed as an al…
Mi amigo Giovanni's Death , a digital performance of a friendship that keeps on living
Mi amigo Giovanni's Death is a digital autoethnographic performance that explores the themes of friendship, love and grief in a Zoom environment that presents a paradox of physical absence while experiencing psychological presence. The play follows Elliot's journey as he grapples with the loss of his friend and former lover, Giovanni. Through a series of episodes of their lives together represented in dialogues and musical numbers, the play explo…
He Kept Me Safe: A play on intimate partner violence amongst gay and bisexual men
He Kept Me Safe is a multi-actor theatre play shedding light on the experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) amongst gay and bisexual men (GBM). The play is based on qualitative research conducted with 10 GBM survivors in Scotland using a narrative inquiry approach, allowing participants to authentically recount their IPV experiences. Subsequently, using narrative portraiture, the interview transcripts were transformed into a script featuri…
Sociology (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (6 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)