scholarly journals Safety representatives' views on their interaction with workers in a context of unequal power relations: An exploratory qualitative study in Barcelona (Spain)

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laia Ollé-Espluga ◽  
María Menéndez-Fuster ◽  
Carles Muntaner ◽  
Joan Benach ◽  
Montse Vergara-Duarte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Power Relations

Proposing paradigm peace: Mixed methods in feminist tourism research

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente Heimtun ◽  
Nigel Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

This article attempts to engage and advance tourism’s epistemological and methodological discussions. It explores how the transformative paradigm offers an opportunity to feminist tourism researchers to broaden their methods base and obtain nuanced understandings of systematic and localised oppression without compromising research principles, such as positionality and reflexivity. To illustrate the value of this approach, we combine a qualitative study of midlife (35–55 years) single women’s holiday experiences with a follow-up quantitative study of young (18–30 years) single women’s experiences. We argue that merging these studies creates new understandings of intersecting power relations related to gender, age and singlehood and that in a broader sense working within the transformative paradigm has the potential to promote paradigm peace in feminist tourism research.

scholarly journals Pop-up non-governmental organizations: (Re)producing colonial helping relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McFadden
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Imbalance ◽  
Helping Relationships ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This qualitative study engages a postcolonial lens to examine the (re)production and disruption of neocolonial, racist power relations in Pop-Up Non-Governmental Organizations’ (PUNs) transnational helping relationships. Recognizing the historical and contemporary use of representations to further colonizing, racist goals, the analysis examines the use of text-based self-representations and refugee representations. This study utilizes five critical discourse analysis tools on four PUN websites’ texts through which the PUNs self-describe, share their work, and seek support. In analyzing these websites, this research aims to identify how the four PUNs navigate the inherent power imbalance between their Northern organizations and the Southern refugees they seek to support. Ultimately, the analysis presents evidence that, although the four PUNs endeavour to disrupt colonial practices, the websites’ representational practices (re)produce colonial, racialized helping relations. It is hoped that this research will support others working from White, Northern perspectives to reflect on their approach and consider alternatives.

scholarly journals Pop-up non-governmental organizations: (Re)producing colonial helping relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McFadden
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Imbalance ◽  
Helping Relationships ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This qualitative study engages a postcolonial lens to examine the (re)production and disruption of neocolonial, racist power relations in Pop-Up Non-Governmental Organizations’ (PUNs) transnational helping relationships. Recognizing the historical and contemporary use of representations to further colonizing, racist goals, the analysis examines the use of text-based self-representations and refugee representations. This study utilizes five critical discourse analysis tools on four PUN websites’ texts through which the PUNs self-describe, share their work, and seek support. In analyzing these websites, this research aims to identify how the four PUNs navigate the inherent power imbalance between their Northern organizations and the Southern refugees they seek to support. Ultimately, the analysis presents evidence that, although the four PUNs endeavour to disrupt colonial practices, the websites’ representational practices (re)produce colonial, racialized helping relations. It is hoped that this research will support others working from White, Northern perspectives to reflect on their approach and consider alternatives.

scholarly journals RELASI KEKUASAAN DALAM WACANA PENERAPAN QANUN JINAYAT DI ACEH

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putri Maulina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Sharia Law ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

Implementation of Islamic Sharia in Aceh not only involve to the Muslim society as the majority,but also non-Muslim minority society. One of the laws that applied in Aceh is Qanun Jinayat.Implementation of Qanun Jinayat as part of the Islamic law involving multiple parties in arelationship of power. In this case, the Aceh government and the mass media are the 'power'which determines the dominant discourse in the society. This qualitative study will describe howthus power manifested in such discourse of the media. Eventually, the result of study showed thatthe issue of enforcement of Qanun Jinayat takes the interests of the dominant ruler through theuses of language in the mediaKeywords: Power Relations, Govermentality, Sharia Law, Qanun Jinayat

Reflections on Positionality from a Russian Woman Interviewing Russian-Speaking Women in London

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 122-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darya Malyutina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Russian Woman ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Russian Researcher

This paper explores the implications of shared femininity in a qualitative study of friendship networks amongst Russian-speaking migrants in London by a Russian researcher. Drawing upon feminist literature on the complexities of women interviewing women, I outline the reflexive approach to positionality informing power relations and establishment of trust in the relationship between the researcher and the researched. The examples of interviewing a friend and two friendly strangers demonstrate the ways of negotiating mutual positions in the interaction. Shared gender is regarded as partially, but not universally, promoting rapport, taking into account the intersectionality of multiple differences between women. Considering the researcher's positionality has been presented in this paper as a means of making similarities and differences between participants useful for the critical interpretation of the work, and using its relevant aspects for building a positive, open, and more equal interaction.

Currencies of Social Support: Israeli-Palestinian Single Mothers in Their Families and Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Meler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
Gift Economy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article addresses the support and supervisional relations of Israeli Palestinian women who are single mothers vis-à-vis their families and communities. This article links the theoretical discussion of gift economy with the discussion of power relations and gender. Whereas previous studies have emphasized aggressive means of supervising women, the focus on gifts allows for an examination of single mothers and kinship relationships in the context of dependency, power and obligation. As single mothers, many women enjoy several types of concrete support and assistance. This study shows that in return, they are required to “repay” in various “currencies,” which are manifested in several obedience patterns. This is a qualitative study using in-depth interviews with Palestinian single mothers in Israel.

scholarly journals Configuration of power relations in physicians and nurses’ professional practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tauana Wazir Mattar e Silva ◽  
Isabela Silva Câncio Velloso ◽  
Meiriele Tavares Araújo ◽  
Aline da Rocha Kallás Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Belo Horizonte

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the configuration of power relations constituted in and by the knowledge and daily practices of physicians and nurses in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: qualitative study in which data were collected through interviews with physicians and nurses from an ICU of a hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. A semi-structured script was used. Data were analyzed through discourse analysis in a Foucaultian perspective. Results: three categories were developed - Professional Identity: self-recognition in the profession; Discipline: individualizing attitudes or collective need?; and Circularity of knowledge and power in the constitution of daily practices. Final considerations: the identity, discipline and circulation of power are connected in a continuous movement of subjectivation of the subject, which, in turn, uses discourse as a persuasion strategy to modify the position taken over in different situations thereby causing the circulation of power.

How Students Negotiated Power & Authority Issues in a Residential Community Standards Program: Implications for Creating Empowering Educational Settings

NASPA Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy McHugh Engstrom ◽  
Hilton Hallock ◽  
Stacey Riemer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Student Affairs Professionals ◽  
Student Resistance ◽  
Residential Community ◽  
Student Talk ◽  
Shared Authority ◽  
Community Standards ◽  
Pilot Implementation

In this qualitative study, researchers describe how 38 students constructed issues of power and authority during a pilot implementation of a residentially based self-governance program: the community Standards Model (Piper, 1997). Students' perceptions illustrated multiple constructions of power in four theme areas: (a) power as a possession versus power as an interrelational act, (b) power with versus power over, (c) content and process dimensions, and (d) staff and student talk. As a result of an enhanced understanding of student–staff power relations as perceived by students, we propose two interrelated, transformative conditions for promoting shared authority among students and student affairs professionals in ways that foster learning, while also minimizing acts of student resistance.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document