In the construction of an academic thesis, the lived and multi-voiced experiences of fieldwork have to be condensed and distilled into a single, coherent narrative thread. This article discusses the problematic and delicate situation of attempting to select (and thereby exclude) materials and stories, and of representing faithfully but through analytical lenses, while juggling the intricacies of the author’s own positionalities and multiple levels of interpretation. In its discussion, this article makes explicit the complications of translating and transposing lived encounters and experiences into text and the written word, and unpacks the inexorable exercise of power involved in this process.
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Herrmann, Andrew F.
2012. “Criteria against Ourselves?”. International Review of Qualitative Research 5:2 ► pp. 135 ff.
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2016. The bumpy road to ‘becoming’: capturing the stories that teenage mothers told about their journey into motherhood. Child & Family Social Work 21:4 ► pp. 521 ff.
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Lu, Hangyan & Warren A. Hodge
2019. Toward multi-dimensional and developmental notion of researcher positionality. Qualitative Research Journal 19:3 ► pp. 225 ff.
MacKenzie, Catrina A, Julia Christensen & Sarah Turner
2015. Advocating beyond the academy: dilemmas of communicating relevant research results. Qualitative Research 15:1 ► pp. 105 ff.
Nesbitt‐Larking, Paul
2022. Responsibility, Recognition, and Representation: The Ethical Bases of Truth Evaluation in Political Narrative Analysis. Political Psychology 43:3 ► pp. 549 ff.
Onuora, Adwoa Ntozake
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