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Torngren, Sayaka Osanami ORCID: 0000-0003-0137-5528 and Ngeh, Jonathan (2018). Reversing the gaze: methodological reflections from the perspective of racial- and ethnic-minority researchers. Qual. Res., 18 (1). S. 3 - 19. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1741-3109

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Abstract

In the current literature on methodology and knowledge production, there is a substantial imbalance in interracial and interethnic research: the perspective has primarily been that of the white gaze'. This article reverses that gaze and attempts to initiate a methodological discussion that is missing today: what occurs when non-white researchers interview a white-majority population or persons of the same racial but different ethnic background? Based on the experiences of a female researcher with an East Asian background (Sayaka Osanami Torngren) and a male researcher with an African background (Jonathan Ngeh) who conducted interviews in Malmo, Sweden, this article analyzes incidents in which the boundaries between race, ethnicity and non-Swedishness in relation to non-whiteness are implicitly and explicitly communicated between the researcher and the researched. Our experiences reveal that the demarcation of these boundaries is not fixed but highly fluid.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Torngren, Sayaka Osanami UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0137-5528 UNSPECIFIED Ngeh, Jonathan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-198191
DOI:	10.1177/1468794116683991
Journal or Publication Title:	Qual. Res.
Volume:	18
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 3 - 19
Date:	2018
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1741-3109
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INTERVIEWER; RACE; DIFFERENCE; DYNAMICS Multiple languages Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19819