'Must I seize every opportunity?' Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness
'Must I seize every opportunity?' Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness
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“我必须抓住每一个机会吗？”
DOI：
10.1080/09581596.2013.802290
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Throsby K
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作者：
Throsby K
这篇论文借鉴了两位研究人员的经验，他们的研究对象是非常不同的城镇规划者和英吉利海峡游泳者，他们致力于发展肥胖的关键账户。通过与这些不同参与者的接触，我们通过参与在“领域”中发生的具体接触来探索批判性研究的“行为”。在这样做的过程中，作为研究遭遇的一部分，我们反思了我们双方都有过的时刻，不仅发现我们自己处于恐惧脂肪的环境中，而且在这些环境中，我们作为对话者的角色实际上是同谋。在本文中，我们探讨了我们（在我们所有的多重社会、专业和具体化的主体性中）在这些遭遇中固有的紧张关系，并询问参加这些具体化的对抗（或避免对抗）可能对关键研究过程意味着什么——无论是对个人研究人员还是与他们一起工作的参与者的实践和研究产出的影响。在这样做的过程中，我们关注对研究相遇的关注增加了关于社会科学“影响”的辩论，关于学者行动主义的行为以及研究人员在研究相遇中的作用。
This paper draws on the experiences of two researchers working to develop critical accounts of fatness with very different research participants – town planners and English Channel swimmers. Drawing across our encounters with these different participants, we explore the ‘doing’ of critical research through attending to the embodied encounters which take place in the ‘field’. In so doing, we reflect on moments where we have both, as part of the research encounter, not only found ourselves simply in fat-phobic contexts, but also effectively complicit in those contexts in our roles as interlocutors. In this paper, we explore the tensions inherent in those encounters for us (in all our multiple social, professional and embodied subjectivities), and ask what attending to these embodied confrontations (or the avoidance of confrontation) might mean for the critical research process – both in terms of the impact on practice and outputs of research for individual researchers and the participants with whom they are working. In doing so, we focus on what attention to the research encounter adds to debates about ‘impact’ in social science, about the doing of scholar-activism and about the role of the researcher’s body in the research encounter.