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Title 'Navigating the In-Between: A Cross-Cultural Researcher's Fluid Positionality in West Africa'
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/29640; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/29021
Date 2024
Author(s) Niati, Noella Binda
Abstract This article explores the challenges and complexities of a cross cultural PhD student conducting research in West Africa. I discuss how I navigated, negotiated and blurred my insider/outsider experiences as a Congolese-American woman as I engaged with themes oscillating between power, legitimacy, language, gender, and my decolonial and social justice commitments. Reflexive research on Africans studying a secondary non-native African country is seldom discussed or researched. As such, I utilised an intersectional transnegritude theoretical framework to centre and complicate the shared transcolonial struggles and neocolonial realities of myself and my participants. I conclude by positing that, despite the challenges of doing transnational work, reflexively recognising our positionality lends to a liberatory and critical transnational exchange that encourages new approaches to knowledge production for social justice. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of insider/outsider research, positionality, decolonising research, and comparative case study to articulate and dearticulate power dynamics in neocolonial contexts. - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) insider/outsider; field research; positionality; social justice; intersectional transnegritude; 300 Sozialwissenschaften; ddc:300
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights (CC BY-NC 4.0) Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/29640-2; 1609-4069; 10.1177/16094069231200335
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
Added to C-A: 2024-06-26;10:18:54