Month: April 2025

Interviews and Collaboration: Reflexive ethnography often involves collaborative processes with research participants, where their voices and perspectives are acknowledged in the research.

Ethnographic Ethics: Reflexivity highlights the ethical considerations in ethnography, such as issues of consent, representation, and the researcher’s impact on the community.

Insider/Outsider Perspective: Reflexive anthropology examines the tension between the researcher’s position as an outsider to the culture they study and any insider perspectives they may hold.

Narrative Construction: The recognition that ethnographic writing is not just an objective account, but a narrative shaped by the ethnographer’s choices, voice, and interpretation.

Power Dynamics: Reflexivity involves understanding how power dynamics between the researcher and the researched shape the knowledge produced in ethnographic studies.

Ethnographic Accountability: The ethical obligation for anthropologists to be transparent about their research methods, assumptions, and potential biases in the process of ethnographic writing and analysis.

Subjectivity: In reflexive ethnography, subjectivity refers to the acknowledgment that the researcher’s perspectives and experiences shape how they understand and represent the culture they study.

Positionality: The recognition that the researcher’s social, cultural, and personal background shapes the research process, influencing their interactions with participants and interpretations of data.

Reflexivity: The practice of critically reflecting on the anthropologist’s role, biases, and influence on the research process, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and transparency in ethnographic work.