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Exploring gender, age, time and space in research with older Pakistani Muslims in the United Kingdom
— formalised research 'ethics' and performances on the public/private divide in 'the field' | | Author(s) | Maria Zubair, Christina Victor |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 5, May 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, May 2015 |
| Pages | pp 961-985 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Pakistani people ; Islam ; The Family ; Informal care ; Social ethics ; Research Reviews ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Reflecting on the authors' experiences of undertaking fieldwork for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) New Dynamics of Ageing study of 'Families and Caring in South Asian Communities', this paper maps out the key methodological and ethical challenges for researching ageing ethnic minority populations. The paper highlights the importance of developing socially appropriate research methodologies and ethical frameworks for carrying out research. Using a reflexive approach, the paper explores the significance of gender, age, time and space to the fieldwork processes and 'the field' relationships formed at various stages of the research process. In particular, it focuses on three key emergent issues which presented particular challenges for the authors and their older Pakistani Muslim participants: (a) structuring of time in daily life; (b) gendered use of public and private spaces; and (c) orality of informal social contexts and relationships. Using illustrations from fieldwork and performativities of public/private identities, the authors highlight important tensions between formalised ethical and methodological dimensions of conducting funded research and the realities of being in 'the field'. The paper concludes by emphasising the need to explore further not only the ways in which researchers can adopt more socially and culturally sensitive data collection processes and methodologies at the micro level of their interactions with research participants, but also contextualising the particular challenges experienced by researchers and their participants in terms of the wider research frameworks and agendas as well as the broader social contexts within which they live and work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626004 A |
| Classmark | TKKE: TUR: SJ: P6: TQ: 3A:6KC: 8 |
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