Negotiating multiple positionalities in the interview setting: researching across gender and generational boundaries

Tarrant, Anna (2014). Negotiating multiple positionalities in the interview setting: researching across gender and generational boundaries. The Professional Geographer, 66(3) pp. 493–500.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2013.805621

Abstract

This article explores the multiple positionalities that were negotiated during qualitative interviews conducted with older British men who are grandfathers, by a young female early career researcher. Gender, and other methodological challenges negotiated by researchers of men and masculinities have been critiqued, but negotiations of age and generational differences in the field remain scant, despite recognition that age also structures socially constructed and spatially experienced identities. Including reflections on personal research experiences, the article outlines the need for explicit critical attention by geographers to the influence of the fluid intersectional identities of the researcher/researched on research experiences in the field and research outcomes.

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• Item ORO ID
• 38699
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1467-9272
• Keywords
• age/generation; intersectionality; masculinities; positionality; semistructured interviews
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
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• © 2013 Association of American Geographers. Published by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
• Depositing User
• Anna Tarrant