Relational Inquiry: Generating New Knowledge With Adolescent Girls Who Use Crystal Meth

• Published in: Qualitative inquiry Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 642 - 650
• Main Authors: Newbury, Janet, Hoskins, Marie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2010; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adolescent girls; Adolescents; Crystal methamphetamine; Drug Abuse; Drug Addiction; Drug Use; Elicitation; Ethnographic research; Females; Figurative Language; Girls; Identity; Intervention; Interviews; Knowledge; Methamphetamine; Narratives; Photography; Qualitative analysis; Qualitative Research; Research Methodology; Researcher Subject Relations; Researchers; Social Change; Social Networks; Social Sciences; Subjectivity; Teachers; crystal methamphetamine; relational inquiry; identity; narrative; qualitative research; adolescent girls; photograph elicitation
• ISSN: 1077-8004; 1552-7565
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800410374180

Qualitative research is continuously evolving and expanding as researchers seek methodologies that reflect the intersubjective nature of experience. Relational inquiry is an approach which considers the relationships (a) between researchers and participants, (b) among multiple dimensions of the participant’s lived experience, and (c) between the subjectivity of the participant and the phenomenon under study. In this article, the authors present a study in which the experiences of adolescent girls who use methamphetamines are explored through the use of photograph elicitation. The authors demonstrate how engagement with photographs can bring forth narratives from which researchers, teachers, practitioners, and, indeed, adolescent girls can learn.