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Accepted Paper:
Looking through the digital lens: Making sense of personal narratives and researcher-participant power imbalance when the site turns virtual
Revisiting and revising power relations in online research
Priya Singh
(Indian Institute for Human Settlements)
Vikas John
(Indian Institute for Human Settlements)
Paper short abstract:
The paper engages with researcher-researched relationships, its multitude of inherent imbalanced power relations, and the opportunities and challenges they present when the site of interrogation and knowledge co-production moves into the digital space.
Paper long abstract:
The covid-19 pandemic and the global lockdowns that followed, brought with it unprecedented challenges to research by making the field, locally and globally, inaccessible. Digital methods then allowed access to the site and geographically diverse population, bringing with it inherent issues of ethical and power imbalances. This paper presents a framing of such challenges, particularly at the moment of this methodological transition. It draws from a study of learner and alumni trajectories in premier institutes of Planning education in the global South. The study focused on individual narratives and meaning-making processes, relying primarily on comparative qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, following the principles of narrative storytelling and reflexive methodology.
In particular, this paper engages with researcher/researched relationship, its myriad imbalanced power relations, and the opportunities and challenges presented when the site of interrogation and co-produced knowledge production moves into the digital space. Centrally, it is concerned with how the experience is narrativised and 'made meaning of' through collaboration between the researcher and the participants when the moment and site of contact become virtual.
Conducting our study as researchers from India working on a project funded by the Global North in Tanzania, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India put us in a unique contact zone where the researchers and the researched came from different cultural backgrounds without asymmetrical power relations. The paper discusses how using reflexivity as our guiding principle, we constantly engaged in revisiting the multiple legacies of knowledge production we carried to arrive at a collaborative and participatory research practice.
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Accepted Paper:
Priya Singh (Indian Institute for Human Settlements) Vikas John (Indian Institute for Human Settlements)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
The covid-19 pandemic and the global lockdowns that followed, brought with it unprecedented challenges to research by making the field, locally and globally, inaccessible. Digital methods then allowed access to the site and geographically diverse population, bringing with it inherent issues of ethical and power imbalances. This paper presents a framing of such challenges, particularly at the moment of this methodological transition. It draws from a study of learner and alumni trajectories in premier institutes of Planning education in the global South. The study focused on individual narratives and meaning-making processes, relying primarily on comparative qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, following the principles of narrative storytelling and reflexive methodology.
In particular, this paper engages with researcher/researched relationship, its myriad imbalanced power relations, and the opportunities and challenges presented when the site of interrogation and co-produced knowledge production moves into the digital space. Centrally, it is concerned with how the experience is narrativised and 'made meaning of' through collaboration between the researcher and the participants when the moment and site of contact become virtual.
Conducting our study as researchers from India working on a project funded by the Global North in Tanzania, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India put us in a unique contact zone where the researchers and the researched came from different cultural backgrounds without asymmetrical power relations. The paper discusses how using reflexivity as our guiding principle, we constantly engaged in revisiting the multiple legacies of knowledge production we carried to arrive at a collaborative and participatory research practice.
Researching the post-pandemic city through digital ethnography
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -