Pearce, R orcid.org/0000-0002-9285-303X (2020) A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy. Sociology, 54 (4). pp. 806-824. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
This article proposes that survival may be considered a research method for social researchers, especially if they are undertaking fieldwork within marginalised communities of which they are a part. Drawing on an autoethnographic account of conducting research while trans, it shows how marginalised researchers may encounter both challenges common within the neoliberal university, and troubles specific to the researcher’s social identity, touching on experiences of casualisation, distressing fieldwork, trauma, and suicide. The article concludes that marginalised researchers should not be held individually responsible for their own survival; rather, they require the active support of research communities and institutional frameworks.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020, the Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in Sociology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | autoethnography, casualisation, higher education, marginalisation, neoliberalism, reflexivity, research methods, suicide, transgender, trauma |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2020 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2022 13:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Pulications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0038038520904918 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155765 |