She Pushed Me, and I Flew: A Duoethnographical Story From Supervisors in Flight

Sometimes the different versions of a story should not be reduced to a single "truth," although it is often the role of researchers to do just that. Duoethnography is a methodology that allows multiple views of the same event(s) to be examined, each from within its own context, without the expectation of a final resolution.

In this article we use a duoethnographical approach to explore the supervisor-doctoral student dynamic that occurred during the production of a creative thesis from within a science-focused faculty. We experiment with the idea that duoethnography can assist us to negotiate the power relations of pedagogy in telling the story of our relationship, without the need to privilege one voice over another.

The article has a dual focus: to inform supervision practices, and to show how we went about the process of "doing" duoethnography. It is (re)presented as a series of conversations, (re)constituted from many messy interactions that took place over a period of three months in 2012.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1501153

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2217

Justifying the Authentic Self. Swedish Public Service Workers Talking About Work Stress

This study is based on in-depth interviews with 28 Swedish public service workers. With the help of narrative analysis, we explore how the workers use language to explain their subjective experiences of work stress. Based on a three-level typology, this article examines: 1. the narrative elements in the workers' talk about their stress; 2. the narrative strategies they use in positioning or presenting themselves as "stressed"; and 3. the function of the narratives in a societal context. The study shows the following main results: 1. the workers express feelings of shame when talking about their experiences of work stress; 2. they use justifying accounts, e.g. accepting responsibility for becoming ill; and 3. it is suggested that the public service workers' justifications reflect societal demands of being authentic and true to personal values, and that the dominating expressed value is about a public service ethos.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1501130

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2158

Researching One’s Own Field. Interaction Dynamics and Methodological Challenges in the Context of Higher Education Research

In contrast to quantitative approaches, where interaction effects are usually regarded as errors or disruption, we understand interviews as social situations and the interaction dynamics between interviewee and interviewer as constitutive for data collection and interpretation.

We conducted interviews with various actors from the academic field for a research project in higher education research. Based on our field experience we assume that interviews also offer opportunities for the respondents to present themselves in a discursive process.

In this article we first show that many of our interviewees perceived us as evaluators. We argue that the interviewees' self-presentations and rhetorical strategies were shaped by the evaluative and competitive environment in which they took place, i.e. that of the entrepreneurial university. Furthermore we sum up various types of interactive effects which can occur when researchers interview actors with a higher status in the academic field. These research up-effects as well as the interviewees' perception of us as evaluators influenced both how and what they told us as well as what they kept silent. Therefore we plead that researchers should look out more carefully for interaction dynamics when interpreting data, as they also might be pointers to tensions, conflicts or opposing perspectives.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1501111

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2225

The system of textbook approval in Poland under communist rule (1944–1989) as a tool of power of the regime

10.1080/00309230.2014.997756
Joanna Wojdon

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00309230.2014.997756?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Osteuropa | 9-10/2014

Gefährliche Unschärfe Russland, die Ukraine und der Krieg im Donbass

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/osteuropa/issue/2015-01-26.html

“Illiberal Spaces:” Uzbekistan’s extraterritorial security practices and the spatial politics of contemporary authoritarianism

Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015, pages 140-159
10.1080/00905992.2014.980796
David Lewis

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00905992.2014.980796?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

“Why not love our language and our culture?” National rights and citizenship in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union

Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015, pages 27-44
10.1080/00905992.2014.972351
Krista A. Goff

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00905992.2014.972351?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

“Serbs” in Bela krajina: a (deliberately) forgotten minority?

Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015, pages 178-194
10.1080/00905992.2014.977240
Romana Bešter

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00905992.2014.977240?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

The Soviet people: national and supranational identities in the USSR after 1945

Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015, pages 1-7
10.1080/00905992.2014.953467
Zbigniew Wojnowski

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00905992.2014.953467?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Securing the nuclear nation

Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015, pages 8-26
10.1080/00905992.2014.977856
Kate Brown

Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00905992.2014.977856?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R