Making the familiar strange: can visual research methods render the familiar setting more perceptible?
By Dawn Mannay. 2010
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The centrality of the researcher and their position in relation to the research setting has been subject to controversy and long standing debates threaded with the narratives of insider and outsider myths. Insiders are often charged with the tendency to present their group in an unrealistically favourable light, and their work is often considered to be overshadowed by the enclosed, self-contained world of common understanding. This article draws upon data generated by six participants from a research project, which aimed to explore and represent the everyday experiences of working-class mothers and daughters residing on a peripheral social housing estate. The article describes how I, as an indigenous researcher, employed visual methods of data production in order to suspend my preconceptions of familiar territory, and facilitate an understanding of the unique viewpoints of mothers and daughters on the margins of contemporary Britain. The article focuses the usefulness of the approach for making the familiar strange when the researchers own experience mirrors that of their participants.
Subfields: Conservation, Sociology and Political Science
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- Pluralisms in Qualitative Research: From Multiple Methods to Integrated Methods (2011, methodology): “The use of multiple methods, and the complexity they can bring, is one useful and effective way forward (see, e.g., Mannay 2010; Tabar 2010).”
- A Case Study of a Case Study: Analysis of a Robust Qualitative Research Methodology (2012, methodology): “…5 Things that aren't there Step II: Participant-generated Photography After completing the analysis of the archived data, I used the themes gathered from the coding to inform my next step, participant-generated photography (Keats, 2009; Ketelle, 2010; Mannay, 2010; Pink, 2004).”
- Timelining: visualizing experience (2011, neutral): “…visual methods (Bagnoli, 2009; Collier and Collier, 1986; Frith and Harcourt, 2007; Harper, 2002; Hurdley, 2006, 2007; Irving, 2009; Keightley and Pickering, 2006; Mannay, 2010; Pink, 2001; Rose, 2007; Sheridan and Chamberlain, in press) and, as this article has shown, by timelining in particular.”