Troubling power and knowledge creation dynamics through research subject inter-viewing

Critically Exploring the Field of Possibilities

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ID4367273
AuthorsMegan Rådesjö (0000-0001-6408-2090, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume26
Issue2
Pages247-265
Publication date2025-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001241305346
OpenAlexW4406128059
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited43

Interviewing is a commonly used qualitative method in social scientific research. However, researchers departing from feminist theories have long been critical of power and knowledge creation dynamics in the context of this method. In contribution to this literature, this article aims to introduce research subject inter-viewing, which is an interview guide-facilitated audio- or video-recorded interview between at least two research subjects. The researcher is the organiser and coordinator but is not present during the interview. Instead, the research subjects interview each other about the problem or phenomenon that the researcher delineates through interview topics, questions or vignettes. In this article, I critically explore research subject inter-viewing's field of possibilities through seven research subject interviews with fourteen participants. In this critical exploration, research subject inter-viewing changed the power and knowledge creation dynamics during the interview process. It shifted to a dynamic between research subjects changing the scope of knowledge creation through the research subjects' initiatives. Therefore, research subject inter-viewing contributes an alternative approach to interviewing that facilitates a transformative shift of power dynamics and opens new ways of co-creating sensitive or cultural knowledge in an interview setting

Epistemology · Pedagogy · Sociology · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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