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Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?”

Sensitive disability questions and peer research encounters
  • Valerie Williams
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Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews
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Abstract

This chapter is about research in Disability Studies, where co-production, inclusivity and peer research are central ( Barton 2005; Walmsley and Johnson 2003; Williams 1999, 2011, 2016). For instance, Williams (1999), which I will refer to as Project 1 involves disabled people and their organisations, both as researchers and researched. In emancipatory models (Oliver 1992; Zarb 1992; Barnes 2003), the notion is that disabled people are in control of the research agenda, not necessarily carrying out the research. Nevertheless, one of the arguments for the value of peer research is that a disabled researcher will be able to identify with disabled participants, and thereby produce richer data (Nind and Vinha 2014). However, as illustrated by Roulston (this volume), when interviewer and interviewee share a knowledge domain, the production of data in the interview can be problematic. This chapter adds to the notions of relative epistemic domains, by exploring the ways in which interviewer and interviewee not only attend to epistemics, but also to each other’s wider identities.

Abstract

This chapter is about research in Disability Studies, where co-production, inclusivity and peer research are central ( Barton 2005; Walmsley and Johnson 2003; Williams 1999, 2011, 2016). For instance, Williams (1999), which I will refer to as Project 1 involves disabled people and their organisations, both as researchers and researched. In emancipatory models (Oliver 1992; Zarb 1992; Barnes 2003), the notion is that disabled people are in control of the research agenda, not necessarily carrying out the research. Nevertheless, one of the arguments for the value of peer research is that a disabled researcher will be able to identify with disabled participants, and thereby produce richer data (Nind and Vinha 2014). However, as illustrated by Roulston (this volume), when interviewer and interviewee share a knowledge domain, the production of data in the interview can be problematic. This chapter adds to the notions of relative epistemic domains, by exploring the ways in which interviewer and interviewee not only attend to epistemics, but also to each other’s wider identities.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Contributors xi
  5. Transcription conventions xv
  6. Preface xvii
  7. Part I. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
  9. Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews
  10. Introduction to Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews 31
  11. Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?” 37
  12. Chapter 3. Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’ 59
  13. Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’ 79
  14. Chapter 5. “What does it mean?” 103
  15. Chapter 6. Epistemic shifts 125
  16. Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews
  17. Introduction to Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews 143
  18. Chapter 7. “That’s a stupid question!” 147
  19. Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?” 181
  20. Chapter 9. “It doesn’t make sense, but it actually does” 201
  21. Chapter 10. Continuers in research interviews 219
  22. Chapter 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews 239
  23. Part IV. Summing up
  24. Chapter 12. The way(s) of interviewing 271
  25. References 283
  26. Author index 319
  27. Subject index 325
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.220.02wil

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Contributors xi
  5. Transcription conventions xv
  6. Preface xvii
  7. Part I. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
  9. Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews
  10. Introduction to Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews 31
  11. Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?” 37
  12. Chapter 3. Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’ 59
  13. Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’ 79
  14. Chapter 5. “What does it mean?” 103
  15. Chapter 6. Epistemic shifts 125
  16. Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews
  17. Introduction to Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews 143
  18. Chapter 7. “That’s a stupid question!” 147
  19. Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?” 181
  20. Chapter 9. “It doesn’t make sense, but it actually does” 201
  21. Chapter 10. Continuers in research interviews 219
  22. Chapter 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews 239
  23. Part IV. Summing up
  24. Chapter 12. The way(s) of interviewing 271
  25. References 283
  26. Author index 319
  27. Subject index 325
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