Reflexivity and Queer Embodiment: Some Reflections on Sexualities Research in Ghana
Reflexivity and Queer Embodiment: Some Reflections on Sexualities Research in Ghana
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反身性和酷儿体现：对加纳性行为研究的一些思考
DOI：
10.1057/s41305-018-0135-6
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发表时间：
2018
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1.8
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Gore E
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作者：
Gore E
“反身转向”超越了社会科学的学科界限。女性主义学者特别关注其核心问题，在女性主义理论和实践中建立了广泛的反身性文献。在本文中，我有助于这个奖学金解构的“故事”，我自己的研究作为一个白色，性别酷儿，男性化的研究人员在加纳。这种解构是基于对首都阿克拉LGBT活动的13个月实地研究。使用一系列的民族志的小插曲，我检查酷儿的主体性，体现和自我/其他动态的研究遇到的问题。具体来说，我询问什么是权力关系的反射性关注意味着当研究人员与研究参与者分享的共性和差异的时刻，在这里涉及到性别，性，种族和阶级的轴。最后，我探讨的挑战理论化的阻力，在女权主义后殖民批评的政治代表。我的结论是，只有将这些紧张和不和谐置于我们研究的前台，反身性才成为一种有意义的方式，使知识生产更加负责和透明，实践女权主义团结，挖掘我们自己的酷儿研究之旅。
The ‘reflexive turn’ transcended disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences. Feminist scholars in particular have taken up its core concerns, establishing a wide-ranging literature on reflexivity in feminist theory and practice. In this paper, I contribute to this scholarship by deconstructing the ‘story’ of my own research as a white, genderqueer, masculine-presenting researcher in Ghana. This deconstruction is based on thirteen months of field research exploring LGBT activism in the capital city of Accra. Using a series of ethnographic vignettes, I examine questions of queer subjectivity, embodiment and self/Other dynamics in the research encounter. Specifically, I interrogate what a reflexive concern for power relations means when researchers share moments of commonality and difference with research participants, here in relation to axes of gender, sexuality, race and class. Finally, I explore the challenge of theorising resistance in light of feminist postcolonial critiques of the politics of representation. I conclude that it is only by locating these tensions and dissonances in the foreground of our inquiries that reflexivity becomes meaningful as a way of rendering knowledge production more accountable and transparent, of practising feminist solidarity, and of excavating our own queer research journeys.