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Conducting textual analysis : the role of ethics, spirituality, and positionality in understanding social change and transformations through interpretive research projects / Emily Noelle Sanchez Ignacio

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Ignacio, Emily, 1970-
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London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018.
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Scholars interested in social change and transformation often use interpretive methods particularly textual analysis to discover how systemic oppressions are (re)produced in hopes of producing a "better" future. A focus on meaning-making, thus, dominates studies on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In this case study, I show that being committed to conducting ethical research focused on social change and transformation also entails reflecting on how one "sees and acts in the world." I show my journey as a researcher from graduate school to the present, through demonstrating how my methodology and methods professors insistence on reflecting on our interpretive paradigms and relationship to that which is researchedintersected with my spiritualitystrengthened and honed my skills as a scholar/researcher. Ethical concerns toward the communities I study as well as my commitment to producing sound scholarship in this Age of Alternative Facts necessarily, affects every single stage of my research journey. The aim of this case study is to give a personal account of my development as a scholar/researcher through describing the development of one interpretive research project focused on social change and transformation in hopes that aspiring scholar/researchers will, also, see the benefit of taking the time to learn how they see and act in the world. I hope this will help us all become more aware of the potential impacts of our research, from the point of designing through the dissemination of our research.
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9781526458742 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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