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“Methodology and Reflexivity”,

Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Womenand Identities in Guyana”

‘Gender and Development: Principles and Concepts’

Linda Peake & D. Alissa Trotz

Group presentation by:

Abdul Kader Nazmul, Ria Permana Sari, Chaw Su Ma, Ma Kebu



Outline

Guyana at a Glance Methods

Comparison of the Research Methods of Alissa

and Linda Feminist Research Methodology

Reflexivity

Practicing Reflexivity by Linda and Alissa Surprise Show

Questions



Guyana

a former colony of the British, Dutch and for abrief period, the French.

Gu ana achieved inde endence from UK on 26

May,1966 and became a Republic on 23February, 1970

Ethnic groups : Indo-Guyanese (43.5%), Afro-

Guyanese (30.2%), mixed (16.7%), Aboriginal(10%), others (European, Chinese).

Source: Wikipedia



Method

Methods – the actual tools that we use todo research.

• Face-to-Face interviews

• Surveys

• Non-participative observations

• Participative observation

• Experiments

• Secondary data



Comparison of Alissa’s and Linda’s Research Methods

Alisa Linda

Research Purpose PhD project Research Project

Target Area Albouystown (Guyana) Meten Meer Zorg East & Linden

(Guyana)

Target Groups • Female (head of HH, partner of HH) • Eldest women• Men

Survey Design and

Implementation

• cooperation with ANDA & AWSG

• pilot survey

• questionnaire survey

• cooperation with Red Thread

• training for the Red Thread

• interview with snowball sampling

In-depth Interviews • 20 women (10 Afro-Guyanese & 10

Indo- Guyanese women)

• Semi structured interviews

• Did not record (was not allowed as the

respondents did not feel comfortable),

just took notes and added her own

observations

• Other women and children also

participated in the interviews or

discussions

• Interviews ranged from 6-14 hours and

were spread over several visits

• topic

• 15 Afro-Guyanese & 15 Indo-

Guyanese women

• Semi structured interviews

• Taped and transcribed

• Other women and children also

participated in the interviews or

discussions

• Interviews varied in length from 3- 8

hours and sometimes included more

than 1 visit.

• topic



Alisa Linda

Secondary

Research Methods

• Participant observation

techniques

• a small snowball survey

Discussion with a variety of

individuals

Comparison of Alisa and Linda’s Research Methods (cont..)

Data analysis Statistical Package for the SocialSciences (SPSSX)

SPSSX



Alissa’s topic

• Women’s childhood• Employment

• Residential

• Child bearing and relationship histories• Patterns of decision making & budgeting

• Household division of labour

• Kinship networks & participation in

organizations



Linda’s topic

• Family history

• Education received

• Em lo ment histor

• Present household• Children

• Views on marriage, family & sexuality

• Views on community activities, politics & ethnicity• Thought of their changed lives over the last decade

• Access to health care & other services

• Expectation for the future



Feminist Research Methodology

The method used in feminist research

The difference lies in the methodology



Feminist Research Methodology

Seek to reveal and overcome androcentricbiases in research.

.

Seek to represent human diversity.

Acknowledge the positionality of the

researcher.



Reflexivity

• An important part of feminist research methodology• Leads to a critical consciousness of the relationship

between the researcher and the researched.

• o a s or erm process. ea y s ou a e p acealong the research process continuum.

“ Reflexivity at one level is a self-critical action whereby the

researcher finds that the world is mediated by the self. It

means what can be known, can only be known through

oneself, one's lived experiences, one's biography.”



Practicing Reflexivity

How can we practice reflexivity?

The practice of reflexivity can bring alternative form of knowledge into public discourse.

1. Know your standpoint prior to entering the research studyor project

2. Evaluate your positionality and role in the field.

3. Check and monitor your relationship with participants.

4. Listen to your participants.5. Listen to your self

6. Be attentive to the differences.

7. Reflexively investigate or interrogate your data or

information.



Picturing Women

The identity of Linda and Alissa as a white British

women and a black/ mixed Guyanese women aremerged in the authorial ‘we’; simultaneously a

fiction and desire to highlight both the impurity of

experience and the transformation of their ownsubjectivities that has taken places in the process of

the research



Border-crossing

• Closing the gap between researcher and

researched

• Using mediator to close the gap• Alissa and Linda address each of their experiences

to illustrate the different nature of the problems

they encountered in their engagement in themutual process of transforming subjectivities.



Linda’s Practice of Reflexivity

Linda’s awareness of the mutual constitution of identities and

the painful possibilities of transformation.

Mapping project (Learned from the comparison of Susan’s and

Linda’s Map)

Linda became self-conscious about the specificity of her ownposition by creating alternative interpretations of colonial

histories and geographies



Alissa’s Practice of Reflexivity

Alissa realized that complete access to a community

.

Acknowledging her positionality can strengthen her

commitment to conduct good research based on

building relations of mutual respect and recognition.



Surprise Show



References

Bird, Sharon., Feminist Method of Research, available online on

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ucation/Presentation%20on%20Feminist%20Methods%20of%20Research.ppt (retrieved on 14 Oct., 2010)

Letherby, Gayle., 2003, “Doing It For Ourselves: feminist research as

theory in action” in Feminist Research in Theory and Practice.

Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.com) (retrieved on 14 Oct., 2010).

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