Reflexivity

Unmarried Japanese male interviewing married Japanese women about international marriage

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2403471
AutoresAtsushi Takeda (0000-0002-4710-7118, University of the Sunshine Coast, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas285-298
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468794112442523
OpenAlexW2130260650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas29

This article addresses the reflexive nature of research I conducted investigating the experiences of Japanese women who are married to Australian men and currently reside in Australia.It highlights how my positionality: my male gender and Japanese cultural identity, unmarried status and the perspective about the discourse on international marriage influenced the nature of the interview conversations and had an unexpected impact on my fieldwork generally. Considering positionality is not static or fixed, both insider and outsider status between researchers and the researched are not always clearly detached. Presumed advantage and disadvantaged attached to these statuses, therefore, needs to be scrutinized carefully. This article maintains that the insiderness and outsiderness of researchers and researched relationships were not always antithetical, but could work simultaneously making research both highly nuanced and ambiguous at times

Disadvantaged · Insider · Interview · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology