Outside home. Notes on reflexivity

Mara Clemente

Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2017, issue 15, 136-150

Abstract: There is a wide spectrum of ways in managing subjectivity intrinsic in research. This paper goes through and �lives� (Gregorio Gil, 2014) some research experiences: one on prostitution of minors and another on trafficking in human beings. These two experiences reveal how some of the characteristics of my subjectivity � among which that of being a �young female foreigner and outsider� in academia and in fieldwork � and of my own researches, have impacted that reflexivity practice alongside access to related fields, types of relationships and shared information. The paper proffers the idea in which a �reflexive process� on subjectivity can involve and/or hopefully involve the entire experience of the researcher, going beyond the borders of a single research. In the process, unexpected elements of subjectivity can come into play; in other cases the meaning attributed to them can change in time or can have a role different from what had been expected. Some elements, objects of epistemological analyses, as imposed by a reflexive approach, can become objects of attention also on the phenomenological level.

Keywords: subjectivity; reflexivity; outsider; qualitative research; prostitution, sex work; trafficking in human beings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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