When veiled silences speak

Reflexivity, Trouble and Repair as Methodological Tools for Interpreting the Unspoken in Discourse-Based Data

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2403595
AutoresTracy Morison (0000-0001-9088-1662, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; Rhodes University, South Africa), Catriona Ida Macleod (0000-0003-0992-3525, Rhodes University), Catriona Macleod (0009-0005-4281-9617, Rhodes University)
Año2014
Volumen14
Número6
Páginas694-711
Fecha de publicación2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468794113488129
OpenAlexW2166559513
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas31

Researchers who have attempted to make sense of silence in data have generally considered literal silences or such things as laughter. We consider the analysis of veiled silences where participants speak, but their speaking serves as 'noise' that 'veils', or masks, their inability or unwillingness to talk about a (potentially sensitive) topic. Extending Lisa Mazzei's 'problematic of silence' by using our performativity-performance analytical method, we propose the purposeful use of 'unusual conversational moves', the deployment of researcher reflexivity and the analysis of trouble and repair as methods to expose taken-for-granted normative frameworks in veiled silences. We illustrate the potential of these research practices through reference to our study on men's involvement in reproductive decision-making, in which participants demonstrated an inability to engage with the topic. The veiled silence that this produced, together with what was said, pointed to the operation of procreative heteronormativity

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Heteronormativity · Laughter · Linguistics · Normative · Performativity · Queer · Reflexivity · Silence · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology