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Insider or outsider, both or neither: some dilemmas of interviewing in a cross-cultural setting

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Mullings, Beverley·1999·Geoforum
DOI 10.1016/s0016-7185(99)00025-1
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This paper contributes to the growing literature on methods and techniques for conducting qualitative research in economic geography, as well as to recent feminist debates on the impact that relationships of power between researchers and their informants have on the rigor of the findings of qualitative research. Drawing upon my own experiences whilst conducting interviews with managers and workers in information processing companies in Jamaica, I will examine the ways that inter-cultural perceptions, interactions and representations influenced the fieldwork process, and their ultimate effect on my interpretation and writing of the final text. This paper includes that because of the dynamic way in which identities and their attendant power relations are created and transformed during business interviews, uncertainty will necessarily remain a residual in the evaluation and interpretation of information received. It argues that recognizing and naming these uncertainties is an important step towards not only establishing rigor in the research process, but also to displacing the indomitable authority of the author.

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Authors
Mullings, B.
Venue
Geoforum
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-11
Volume
30
Issue
4
Pages
337-350
ISSN
0016-7185 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0016-7185(99)00025-1
OpenAlex
W2048931946
Cited by
710
References
57
FWCI
9.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid
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