Methods as Moving Ground
Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingrid Boas (0000-0001-7842-5883, Wageningen University & Research, corresponding author), J Schapendonk (0000-0001-6099-0841, Radboud University Nijmegen), Suzy Blondin (0000-0002-9121-0315, University of Neuchâtel), Annemiek Pas (0000-0003-4635-9898, Stockholm University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 163-146 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Inclusion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2803 • E-ISSN: 2183-2803 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/si.v8i4.3326 |
| OpenAlex | W3100559568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 39 |
As mobilities studies became a well-respected field in social science, discussions on mobile research designs followed. Usually, these discussions are part of empirical papers and reveal specific methodological choices of individual researchers, or groups of researchers sharing the same objectives and questions. This article starts with a different approach. It is based on continuous discussions between four researchers who developed their own version of mobility-driven projects, starting from different disciplinary backgrounds and using different research techniques. By sharing and contrasting personal fieldwork experiences, we reflect on the doings of mobile methodologies. We engage with the mistakes, dilemmas, and (dis)comforts that emerge from our own mobile research practices, and discuss what this implies for relations of power between the researcher and the research participants, and to what extent mobile research can represent the mobility that we seek to study. Specifically, the article addresses three questions: 1) To what extent do we produce different knowledge with our mobile methodologies? 2) How do our smooth writings about methodology relate to the ‘messy’ realities in the field? 3) How do our practices articulate and transcend difference between researchers and research participants
Class (philosophy · Discipline · Empirical research · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Mobilities · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Pacing mobility through staying and waiting to navigate landscapes of risk
Navigating Pop Ups
Land tenure transformation
Basins, barriers and human-marine (im)mobile encounters
Research Funding and Passport Hierarchies
A feminist approach to sporting mobilities
Understanding accessibility as lived experience
Transnational youth mobility through trajectories and temporalities
Embodied experiences in motion
Far from the “dreaming spires”
Method as Border
Pacing mobility trajectories
Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe
Understanding ‘night grazing’
Complicating the tale of ‘first climate migrants’
The world from a bicycle
Navigating ‘mobility regimes’ through land-sea patron-client networks
I was a loser before, and now I'm a winner
Multi-sited research disrupted
How does knowledge move? Investigating the epistemic mobilities of "climate migration" with diverse conceptual metaphors
Disentangling Following
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes
(Mis)representing climate mobilities
The infrastructuring of young adults' mobility trajectories
Refugees and Exile
Mobility
The Traveller-Gypsies
Ethnography in/of the World System
Contemporary ethnographic practice and the value of serendipity
The Persistence of Tightly Coupled Conflicts. The Case of Loisaba, Kenya
Method as Border
Phenomenology of Exclusion
A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change
Critical feminist reflexivity and the politics of whiteness in the ‘field’
In Search of 'Invisible' Actors
Staying put? Towards a relational politics of mobility at a time of migration
Spatial mobility and social becoming
Afterword. Experiences and stories along the way
Re-routing migration geographies
Radical mobilities
Mobile Methodologies
Cycling through Dark Space
A Chance to Catch a Breath
Rethinking Mobile Methods
Understanding involuntary immobility in the Bartang Valley of Tajikistan through the prism of motility
Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Mobilities Research
Technology and Technique in a Useful Ethnography of Movement
The Movement Beyond (Lifestyle) Migration
A Place of Sense
A global sense of migrant places
The conceptual limits of the 'migration journey'. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories
Conceptualising youth mobility trajectories
Social networking in a digital and mobile world
Mobile Methods and the Empirical
Refugee Voices
Enacting the social
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |