overview//introduction

The following slides are assisting some general reflections on the last day of DeXus after the group presentations.

They start out with a GENERAL reflection note on the ‘compromises’ + negotiations that must have taken place between the group participants beginning of working together.

The subsequent slides then are tailored for each individual group; though they take off from the individual group presentations and aim toward opening general (= more or less valid for ll groups) issues and tensions that are worth to be considering <in my humble opinion>.

GROUP projects <general reflection>

• Compromises of divergent (often conflicting) approaches and methodologies– Implication: before going on, we may want to look back:

• What ARE ‘approaches’ (including: what constitutes “data”)?• What ARE ‘methodologies’ (and how are ‘methods’ related to

‘methodologies’)?

– What is a GOOOD starting point + procedure to conduct ‘research’?

A1

• my space (pre-formed genre activity = constraining identity formation processes - focusing on products/presentational states of a more “frozen” nature)– What modalities are available? How does ‘interaction’

play itself out on ‘my space’? (=constraints in access to certain modalities as impacting on HOW the remaining modalities CAN interact)

– Identity constructions ‘on the web’ - illuminating the role of ‘the web’ as an arena of identity constructions

A2

• “constructions of space”• Is there a space independent of TIME and

CHARACTTER?• symmetry and interspatiality:• role of time - slowing down the movement in

order to see things that are hidden to the eye (of participants AND researchers)

• Fast-forwarding in order to bring out patterns hidden to the eye of participants (and researcher)

A3

• why is he doing that?• And we assume that the answer to this question is

guiding the ongoing interaction (so arguing that the researcher, asking this question, is aligning with the ‘ongoing activities’.

• Nice tool into investigations of individual, parallel and coordinated play frames and how children transit from one into another (=what modes they use to facilitate coordinate play)

A4• Actions and Activities (“units of analysis”)

– as owned by the subjects (in space + time)– as stopping ‘behavior’ in space and time +

labeling/categorizing them• by subjects• by researchers

– where the stopping of time + categorical framing (according to ‘family resemblances requires a perspective//point of view (these categorization process are not “pointless” or “perspectiveless”

• Basic question: What’s going on in the data? - and what is helpful for the research process? <emic-etic>

A5

• memory– Relationship between cultural/communal

memory and individual/personal memory

• narrative– Relationship between cultural/communal

narrating and individual/personal narrating

Role of ACCOUNTING practices in both

B1• Starting out by pitting NGOs vis-à-vis MNC’s against

one another - what does it buy and what is lost?– The world comes in categorial distinctions that have

sociopolitical consequences; using micro-discursive tools, we can lay open the practices within which they operate + how they contribute to oppressionincreasing awareness <engaged stance of the researcher>

– “we” want to explore the categories and categorial distinctions, how they emerge in local practices <I’m more of an outsider> = learning in the process of ‘doing research’

• Tension between these approaches?

B2• Sameness/Uniqueness (IDENTITY) and the role

of narratives therein (=is ‘narrative’ a privileged discourse genre for identity construction?)– a principled question OR a question that only can be

answered locally <empirically>???• making decisions (of how to start + how to proceed) “happen”

to be made on principled (methodological) (+ cultural) grounds <<these decisions are taking place in a tradition of doing research>

• “identity is everywhere” - we just have to look ‘methodically informed’ and will remain open to the process of inquiry

B3

• HOW TO START and move on:– from methodology to a field/data – from <social> problem to methodology to data– from niche <gap> in research to field/data to

methodology

• Transcribing - Translating– issue of giving ‘exact’ transcripts (needs to be

problematized) <<inter-transcriber reliability”>>

– issue of transcription as transformation of data <in order to make the invisible visible - Bert Brecht>