Social Work and Social Policy (Scholarly Publications)
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/210
Social Studies (Scholarly Publications)2024-03-29T21:39:26ZNew-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/107322
New-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research
Flynn, Susan
The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing interpretive Community of Practice (CofP) known as the Pivot Project research consortium. This interpretative community was used to theorise the ontological implications of research in the covid-19 global pandemic. The specific focus was on digitalisation of five qualitative multidisciplinary research projects because of the impacts of an unexpected pandemic. We were able to formulate a bespoke new-materialist bricolage that successfully allowed us to overcome existing impasses of our multidisciplinary ontological differences, whilst enabling us to remain attentive to both abstract and material considerations. We conclude by reflecting on what new-materialist ontology can tell us about what internet-based qualitative research is, could be and perhaps should be, in an ever-changing world.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZPregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/107294
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
Conlon, Catherine; Rigaki, Evangelia
Helen Kara
This chapter discusses a project that originated as policy-commissioned research initiated by
Health Service practitioners to address concerns about recurring presentations of ‘concealed
pregnancy’ to health care settings in Ireland. Research was commissioned to marshal evidence
towards reducing the incidence of this ‘problem’. I conducted the study, interviewing thirteen
women about their experiences of concealing pregnancy. Engaging with the commissioned or
applied policy process evoked for me Buroway’s (2004) conceptualization of policy research as
applied or ‘instrumental knowledge’. A process in which knowledge making is premised on a
positivist paradigm that accepts the possibility of direct access to a singular ‘reality’ while
ignoring theorizations of connections between ‘knowledge’ and power and the implications of
conceptions of subjectivity for knowing the social world (Buroway 2004; Lather 2010; Bacchi
2012; Shortall 2013). A paradigm with the effect of placing the inquiry in the realm of
governmentality of women’s fertile bodies.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZDisability in Narrative Inquiry: A Case of Methodologically Unusable Data from a Participant with Intellectual Disability
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/106610
Disability in Narrative Inquiry: A Case of Methodologically Unusable Data from a Participant with Intellectual Disability
Flynn, Susan
This paper considers methodological and ethical implications of qualitative interview data that was deemed unusable for research analytic purposes, where the interviewee had an intellectual disability. Critical disability studies theory is used to reimagine the utility of one case of so-called unusable qualitative data. Excerpts from this qualitative data that came from a pilot study interview of a PhD project are full of possibility for learning. Yet, among conclusions drawn, rhetoric about disability inclusion appears undermined by ableist normativity which is a concept that refers to valuing ableness. Specifically, the problems associated with valuing abled ways of speaking within wider narrative research and scholarship will be the focus.
PUBLISHED; https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/8516/8077
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZCritical Disability Studies
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/106561
Critical Disability Studies
Flynn, Susan
Dr Gabriel Bennett and Dr Emma Goodall
Critical Disability Studies (CDS), as a transformative theoretical space, has shown immense growth and change over the last decade. It offers a scholarly field and method for comprehending the human condition that maintains disability and ability as key reference points. CDS is also an academic space that is far removed from, and yet seeks to constructively critique, modernist approaches to disability such as social and medical models. As CDS is now producing sophisticated transdisciplinary scholarship at an exponential rate, it is opportune and timely to step back, take stock, and comprehend its current condition. As such, the purpose of this chapter lies in formulating a response, grounded in the complex and contested nature of CDS, to a set line of questioning. Namely, what is CDS and why might it matter?
PUBLISHED
2024-01-01T00:00:00Z