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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Power and positionality: Negotiating insider/outsider status within and across cultures
International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume 20, No. 5, Year 2001
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Description
Early discussions of insider/outsider status assumed that the researcher was predominately an insider or an outsider and that each status carried with it certain advantages and disadvantages. More recent discussions have unveiled the complexity inherent in either status and have acknowledged that the boundaries between the two positions are not all that clearly delineated. Four case studies - a Black woman interviewing other Black women, Asian graduate students in the US interviewing people from ‘back home’, an African professor learning from African businesswomen, and a cross-cultural team studying aging in a nonWestern culture - are used as the data base to explore the complexities of researching within and across cultures. Positionality, power, and representation proved to be useful concepts for exploring insider/outsider dynamics. © 2001 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Authors & Co-Authors
Merriam, Sharan B.
United States, Athens
University of Georgia
Johnson-Bailey, Juanita
United States, Athens
University of Georgia
Lee, Ming Yeh
United States, San Francisco
San Francisco State University
Kee, Youngwha
South Korea
Myungii College
Ntseane, Gabo
Botswana, Gaborone
University of Botswana
Muhamad, Mazanah
Malaysia, Serdang
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Statistics
Citations: 968
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/02601370120490
e-ISSN:
1464519X
Participants Gender
Female