This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research.
Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology: Autobiography, Field, Text
1. Introduction
2. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness, in-field situatedness, post-field text situatedness
3. A century of thinking about situatedness: The Gestalt tradition
4. Conceptual inspiration from the Gestalt tradition
5. Interview techniques
6. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness and post-field textual situatedness
7. Philosophy of science: two ways of going about situatedness
8. Conclusion: Culture, power, ethics