2015/11/13 by Chen Misgav
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Data Analysis and Archiving #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
paper · doi:10.1080/00918369.2015.1112191
openalex publication_date 2015/11/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
This article addresses methodological issues emerging from research conducted with Trans in the Center, an LGBT activist group in Tel Aviv, Israel. It addresses some complex issues related to the politics and ethics of applying queer and feminist methodology to qualitative research in a trans, queer, and feminist community space. The focus is on two issues: the researcher's positionality vis-à-vis the participants and selecting the appropriate methodology in relation to the characteristics of the group under study. Such issues demonstrate how queer and feminist principles are articulated and interwoven in geographical-spatial research in two different dimensions: in the research practice and methodology and in the practices and the spaces created by the activity of the researched group itself. I conclude with insights arising from the attempt to apply feminist and queer paradigms in both theory and research, and I call for their integration into geographical research.