The researcher as occupational traveller: from strategic essentialism to creative understanding
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Article Title | The researcher as occupational traveller: from strategic essentialism to creative understanding |
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Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Journal Title | Journal of Nomadic Studies |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2001 |
Place of Publication | Kaduna, Nigeria |
Abstract | [Abstract]: This paper records the author’s reflections on a five-month study leave involving interviews with occupational Travellers and their teachers in five countries between February and July 1999. The focus is on ways in which elements of the researcher’s subjectivity were mediated and negotiated through interactions with the interviewees and others, processes that both clarified and contested those elements for the researcher. The argument is advanced that, like occupational Travellers when interacting with non-itinerants, the author simultaneously engaged in ‘strategic essentialism’ (Spivak with Rooney, 1997) and strove for anti-essentialism in the form of ‘outsidedness’ from, and ‘creative understanding’ with, others (Bakhtin, 1986). This suggests that the interplay between essentialism and anti-essentialism is complex and fluid for both educational researchers and occupational Travellers. |
Keywords | creative understanding, researcher identity, strategic essentialism, Traveller education |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440699. Human geography not elsewhere classified |
390203. Sociology of education | |
Public Notes | Author's version deposited 10/7/2008 after no response recvd to request for copyright permission after 17 months. |
Byline Affiliations | Central Queensland University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y016/the-researcher-as-occupational-traveller-from-strategic-essentialism-to-creative-understanding
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