FQS Special Issue "Participatory Qualitative Research: What? Who?
How? In Whose Interests?"
In this Special Issue we hope to publish papers that illuminate
philosophical, ethical, political, ideological and methodological issues
peculiar to participatory qualitative research, through articulating
them in relation to examples of substantive hands-on research. We do not
wish to prescribe or proscribe issues which may be addressed but we are
interested, amongst other issues, in questions such as: who
participates, in which ways and decisions, on which occasions, in
relation to which issues, with what effects, for whom and in whose
interests in thoroughly participatory qualitative research? We are
particularly interested in papers whose writing is a manifestation of
participatory practices and papers which encourage readers to
participate in the construction of knowledge. After all if, as BARTHES
put it, "the death of the author is the birth of the reader", the death
of the unitary researcher/knower may be the birth of the participatory
researched/known? We encourage the submission of papers which engage
with: progressive and problematic issues in relation to participatory
research and "democracy"; the relevance to participatory research of
notions of spatial and temporal context, power, sustainability and
privacy. We also encourage submission of papers opening up space for
critique of participatory research: for example whether the term
"participatory research" is too frequently deployed to give
pseudo-legitimation to exploitative practices which are more in the
interests of the researcher than the researched? Finally we encourage
papers discussing how the quality of qualitative research should be
judged and by whom.
We invite you to indicate interest in submitting a full paper by first
submitting a 250 word abstract or outline on which we will offer
feedback as to the likely fit of the proposed paper, if developed, with
the theme of this Special issue. Papers are welcome in English, German
and Spanish; the abstract should be in English.
Abstracts (250 words) should be sent to: jarg.bergold@fu-berlin.de
See http://www.qualitative-forschung.de/en/fqs-supplement/cfp/11-2.html
for additional information.
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/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/
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