Research Methods for Whom?

What is it about?

Research methods are socially constructed, and as social constructions, they reflect social relations of power. The methodological mandates that shape and define authoritative knowledge also limit knowledge production. This book runs the same set examples through three different qualitative methods to highlight the politics of knowledge production.

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Why is it important?

Research methods are themselves socially constructed accounts. Unfortunately, they have become reified as the standards for all knowledge production. Most of our methods were constructed in the early 20th century by white men to understand the presence and meaning of "others." To the extent that this is true, methods may have progressive applications but truly transformative one because they will always miss the relations of power that actively produce "others."