Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process Feminist reflections

• Main Authors: Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2010; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Transformations
• Subjects: Confidential communications; Feminism; Feminism > Research; Feminist Psychology; Feminist Theory; Human Geography - Research Methods and Techniques; Judgment; Political Research Methods; Psychological Methods & Statistics; Research Methods - Soc. Policy; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Social science research; Social sciences; Social sciences > Research; Social sciences > Research > Moral and ethical aspects; Social sciences > Research > Philosophy; Subjectivity; VIP Area; Real World; Troubled Subject Position; Language Brokers; Young Man; south; Sex Tourist; South Asian Women; Research Encounters; Obesity Surgery; Follow; encounters; South Asian Women's Experiences; Door Staff; Reality Tv Celebrity; intertextual; Home Town; participants; Violated; Face To Face; Intertextual Understandings; USA; Feminist Research Praxis; social; researchers; Head Doorman; asian; Tightrope; Chronic; scientists; Wo; VIP; feminist; women; Major UK City
• ISBN: 0415605172; 9780415605175; 0415452147; 9780415452144
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203927045

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions and and political consequences of such moments? What particular dilemmas and constraints do they represent or entail? What are their implications for research praxis? Are such moments always indicative of voicelessness or powerlessness? Or may they also constitute a productive moment in the research encounter? Contributors to this volume were invited to reflect on these questions. The resulting chapters are a fascinating collection of insights into the research process, making an important contribution to theoretical and empirical debates about epistemology, subjectivity and identity in research. Researchers often face difficult dilemmas about who to represent and how, what to omit and what to include. This book explores such questions in an important and timely collection of essays from international scholars.