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Reflexivity through "Positionality Meetings": Religion, Muslims and 'Non-Religious' Researchers
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, v25 n1 p103-117 2022
This paper contributes to current debates on positionality by critically discussing and comparing three researchers' experiences doing research involving Muslims. We introduce "positionality meetings" to enhance reflexivity in qualitative research projects. Based on empirical evidence from our independent projects and the positionality meetings, this paper illustrates how efforts to understanding each other's perspectives and positions, which differ in identities and biographies, challenge our accounts of self-reflexivity. Due to their deliberative character, positionality meetings reveal new and sometimes uncomfortable insights into, for instance, insider and outsider relationships and our attitudes towards religion as a research subject in a particular political context. The paper highlights several stages of the meetings to demonstrate the deliberative practice's value throughout the collective reflexive process. Serving to an interdisciplinary audience, we encourage qualitative researchers to engage in positionality meetings. Therefore, we conclude this paper by providing recommendations on how to organise such meetings.
Descriptors: Muslims, Religion, Religious Factors, Comparative Analysis, Social Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach, Researchers, Philosophy, Interpersonal Relationship, Perspective Taking, Self Concept, Biographies, Meetings, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Islam
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