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Iver B Neumann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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pre field autobiographic Situatedness in field Situatedness post field text Situatedness
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:In this chapter, we move closer to our subject and give examples from pre-field, in-field and post-field Situatedness in research. We begin to demonstrate how we can do Situatedness in practical research, and to open the text to some of the ethical challenges and power/knowledge issues that research is always engaged. In the chosen examples, we apply some of the Gestalt concepts and understandings of relations, which we see as complementary to books and manuals on contemporary methods. Further explanation of the Gestalt concepts will follow in Chaps. 3– 5.
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pre field autobiographic Situatedness and post field textual Situatedness
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:In this chapter, we return to the two types of Situatedness that come in addition to in-field situating; pre-field, autobiographic situating, which enter prior to and bleeds into in-field situating and post-field text situating, that follows after in-field situating. We start by problematizing autobiographic Situatedness with regard to memory and biography, and situate our understanding of the self in relations. We discuss the importance of thinking though how the researcher came to pick and pitch the research the way she did, and move on to problematize textual Situatedness in relation to the various contexts in which the text may be supposed to do a job.
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philosophy of science two ways of going about Situatedness
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:This chapter ventures into the philosophy of science, and so is harder going than the rest of the book. We want to demonstrate that there are two basic ways of thinking scientifically about Situatedness. The dominant one is the one that Jackson (2011) calls reflexivist. We will proceed to discuss this position and juxtapose it with another one that Jackson calls analyticist. The analyticist position relates to situated research not primarily through awareness of changes in the researcher self, like in the reflexivist position, but through awareness of the changes the researcher produces in his relations within fields. We start with a brief summary of reflexivism and engage with two basic criticisms of it, go on to present the analyticist position and end by comparing them.
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a century of thinking about Situatedness the gestalt tradition
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:If we want to master a conceptual apparatus, we need a certain overview of its history. This is important because terms and concepts mean different things within different traditions. Unless we situate the term field, a social scientist could be led to believe that we mean field in the Bourdieuian sense, i.e. a bit of a social reality tied together by a common focus. We do not; we mean the immediate relations within which the researcher does her work. The development of a conceptual terminology often reveals interesting connections with other disciplines and knowledge traditions. By having knowledge of this, one may better understand ambiguities and tensions embedded in concepts that one would otherwise have overlooked.
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uses of the self two ways of thinking about scholarly Situatedness and method
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:If the scholarly self is irretrievably tied to the world, then self-situating is a fruitful source of data production. The researcher becomes a producer, as opposed to a collector, of data. This how-to paper identifies three analytical stages where such self-situating takes place. Pre-field; there is autobiographical situating; in-field, there is field situating, and post-field, there is textual situating. Each of these stages are presented in terms of the three literatures that have done the most work on them – feminism, Gestalt, and poststructuralism. A number of how-to examples are used to illustrate. In conclusion, we discuss how two different methodological commitments to Situatedness, which Jackson (2010) dubbed reflexivist and analyticist, give rise to two analytically distinct ways of using the scholarly self for data production. Reflexivists and analyticists approach data production from opposite ends of the researcher/informant relationship. Where a reflexivist researcher tends to handle the relation between interlocutor and researcher by asking how interlocutors affect the researcher, an analyticist researcher tends to ask how the researcher affects them.
Cecilie Basberg Neumann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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pre field autobiographic Situatedness in field Situatedness post field text Situatedness
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:In this chapter, we move closer to our subject and give examples from pre-field, in-field and post-field Situatedness in research. We begin to demonstrate how we can do Situatedness in practical research, and to open the text to some of the ethical challenges and power/knowledge issues that research is always engaged. In the chosen examples, we apply some of the Gestalt concepts and understandings of relations, which we see as complementary to books and manuals on contemporary methods. Further explanation of the Gestalt concepts will follow in Chaps. 3– 5.
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pre field autobiographic Situatedness and post field textual Situatedness
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:In this chapter, we return to the two types of Situatedness that come in addition to in-field situating; pre-field, autobiographic situating, which enter prior to and bleeds into in-field situating and post-field text situating, that follows after in-field situating. We start by problematizing autobiographic Situatedness with regard to memory and biography, and situate our understanding of the self in relations. We discuss the importance of thinking though how the researcher came to pick and pitch the research the way she did, and move on to problematize textual Situatedness in relation to the various contexts in which the text may be supposed to do a job.
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philosophy of science two ways of going about Situatedness
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:This chapter ventures into the philosophy of science, and so is harder going than the rest of the book. We want to demonstrate that there are two basic ways of thinking scientifically about Situatedness. The dominant one is the one that Jackson (2011) calls reflexivist. We will proceed to discuss this position and juxtapose it with another one that Jackson calls analyticist. The analyticist position relates to situated research not primarily through awareness of changes in the researcher self, like in the reflexivist position, but through awareness of the changes the researcher produces in his relations within fields. We start with a brief summary of reflexivism and engage with two basic criticisms of it, go on to present the analyticist position and end by comparing them.
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a century of thinking about Situatedness the gestalt tradition
2018Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:If we want to master a conceptual apparatus, we need a certain overview of its history. This is important because terms and concepts mean different things within different traditions. Unless we situate the term field, a social scientist could be led to believe that we mean field in the Bourdieuian sense, i.e. a bit of a social reality tied together by a common focus. We do not; we mean the immediate relations within which the researcher does her work. The development of a conceptual terminology often reveals interesting connections with other disciplines and knowledge traditions. By having knowledge of this, one may better understand ambiguities and tensions embedded in concepts that one would otherwise have overlooked.
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uses of the self two ways of thinking about scholarly Situatedness and method
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B NeumannAbstract:If the scholarly self is irretrievably tied to the world, then self-situating is a fruitful source of data production. The researcher becomes a producer, as opposed to a collector, of data. This how-to paper identifies three analytical stages where such self-situating takes place. Pre-field; there is autobiographical situating; in-field, there is field situating, and post-field, there is textual situating. Each of these stages are presented in terms of the three literatures that have done the most work on them – feminism, Gestalt, and poststructuralism. A number of how-to examples are used to illustrate. In conclusion, we discuss how two different methodological commitments to Situatedness, which Jackson (2010) dubbed reflexivist and analyticist, give rise to two analytically distinct ways of using the scholarly self for data production. Reflexivists and analyticists approach data production from opposite ends of the researcher/informant relationship. Where a reflexivist researcher tends to handle the relation between interlocutor and researcher by asking how interlocutors affect the researcher, an analyticist researcher tends to ask how the researcher affects them.
Asaf Kedar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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concept formation in political science an anti naturalist critique of qualitative methodology
Perspectives on Politics, 2008Co-Authors: Mark Bevir, Asaf KedarAbstract:This article offers an anti-naturalist philosophical critique of the naturalist tendencies within qualitative concept formation as developed most prominently by Giovanni Sartori and David Collier. We begin by articulating the philosophical distinction between naturalism and anti-naturalism. Whereas naturalism assumes that the study of human life is not essentially different from the study of natural phenomena, anti-naturalism highlights the meaningful and contingent nature of social life, the Situatedness of the scholar, and so the dialogical nature of social science. These two contrasting philosophical approaches inspire, in turn, different strategies of concept formation. Naturalism encourages concept formation that involves reification, essentialism, and an instrumentalist view of language. Anti-naturalism, conversely, challenges reified concepts for eliding the place of meanings, essentialist concepts for eliding the place of contingency, and linguistic instrumentalism for eliding the Situatedness of the scholar and the dialogical nature of social science. Based on this philosophical framework, we subject qualitative concept formation to a philosophical critique. We show how the conceptual strategies developed by Sartori and Collier embody a reification, essentialism, and instrumentalist view of language associated with naturalism. Although Collier's work on concept formation is much more flexible and nuanced than Sartori's, it too remains attached to a discredited naturalism.
Mark Bevir - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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concept formation in political science an anti naturalist critique of qualitative methodology
Perspectives on Politics, 2008Co-Authors: Mark Bevir, Asaf KedarAbstract:This article offers an anti-naturalist philosophical critique of the naturalist tendencies within qualitative concept formation as developed most prominently by Giovanni Sartori and David Collier. We begin by articulating the philosophical distinction between naturalism and anti-naturalism. Whereas naturalism assumes that the study of human life is not essentially different from the study of natural phenomena, anti-naturalism highlights the meaningful and contingent nature of social life, the Situatedness of the scholar, and so the dialogical nature of social science. These two contrasting philosophical approaches inspire, in turn, different strategies of concept formation. Naturalism encourages concept formation that involves reification, essentialism, and an instrumentalist view of language. Anti-naturalism, conversely, challenges reified concepts for eliding the place of meanings, essentialist concepts for eliding the place of contingency, and linguistic instrumentalism for eliding the Situatedness of the scholar and the dialogical nature of social science. Based on this philosophical framework, we subject qualitative concept formation to a philosophical critique. We show how the conceptual strategies developed by Sartori and Collier embody a reification, essentialism, and instrumentalist view of language associated with naturalism. Although Collier's work on concept formation is much more flexible and nuanced than Sartori's, it too remains attached to a discredited naturalism.
Klaus Kessler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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TEST: A Tropic, Embodied, and Situated Theory of Cognition
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2013Co-Authors: Andriy Myachykov, Christoph Scheepers, Martin H. Fischer, Klaus KesslerAbstract:TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness. Tropic representational features reflect constraints of the physical world on the agent's ability to form, reactivate, and enrich embodied (i.e., resulting from the agent's bodily constraints) conceptual representations embedded in situated contexts. The proposed hierarchy entails that representations can, in principle, have tropic features without necessarily having situated and/or embodied features. On the other hand, representations that are situated and/or embodied are likely to be simultaneously tropic. Hence, although we propose tropism as the most general term, the hierarchical relationship between embodiment and Situatedness is more on a par, such that the dominance of one component over the other relies on the distinction between offline storage versus online generation as well as on representation-specific properties.
