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- Title
Beware of Allies! Notes on Analytical Hygiene in Actor-Network Account-making.
- Authors
Passoth, Jan-Hendrik; Rowland, Nicholas J.
- Abstract
In science and technology studies (STS), reflexivity is not the foremost political or ethical concern that it is for some postmodernists, feminists, anthropologists, or those earnest students of Bourdieu. For us, reflexivity is a practical methodological concern. When reflexivity is raised in our scholarly communications it is, without irony, about crafting scientific communications (i.e., scholarly accounts like articles or books) reflexively. This paper therefore is an actor-network account of making reflexive actor-network accounts, specifically, in the process of writing-up qualitative research findings. It is a paper about research. It is a paper about the research process. As our empirical contribution, we report on research we previously conducted and about the subsequent steps we took toward a (publishable) way of reporting it. We are trying to honestly disclose how the process of preparing a reflexive account is more than merely a matter of cleaning-up the messiness of data, but also, and perhaps foremost, a process of finding, aligning, and occasionally distancing our accounts from our allies — in our case, actor-network theory (ANT) and reflexivity.
- Subjects
ACTOR-network theory; REFLEXIVITY; SCIENTIFIC communication; QUALITATIVE research; GROUNDED theory; DATA analysis; FUNCTIONALISM (Social sciences)
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 4, p465
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-013-9256-6