1999/09/01 by Duncan Fuller · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #Data Analysis and Archiving #Participatory Visual Research Methods
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.1999.tb00086.x
Summary Despite continuing work within feminist research on issues of political commitment and critical forms of engagement, and an increasing desire within geography to effect social change through our privileged positions as academics, active collaboration with groups involved in social action continues to be fraught with ambiguity and anxiety. In this paper, I consider the potential role of the ‘researcher as activist’ through documentation of my interaction and repositioning of identities while becoming involved in credit union development in Kingston upon Hull. I hope to illustrate how the maintenance of a critical, multi‐positioned (and repositioned) identity can be seen as a beneficial, reflexive learning experience for researchers operating within ethnography, and for the research itself.