Description:
Drawing on unique visual methods, Where Am I in the Picture? explores researcher positionality in transnational studies of rurality.
Brief description:
Claudia Mitchell is a distinguished James McGill professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and an honorary professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Review Quotes: "This feminist work on rurality and girlhood is a welcome and timely addition to the literature. It not only disrupts dominant narratives of girlhood and rurality but also shows how researchers' positionalities profoundly shape their nuanced understanding of their work. There is no doubt that visual methodologies, skilfully and creatively employed as central to the book, generate a formidable transnational ecology of knowledge. Highly recommended!!"--Ronelle Carolissen, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University
"This bold and intriguing book considers the vital question of a researcher's own situation, as raised by women exploring issues of gender-based violence in South Africa, Sweden, and Canada. In thirteen diverse and lively chapters, lavishly illustrated by photographs whose guiding assumptions are also put under the microscope, this collection raises questions that are simultaneously profoundly personal and productively rigorous. In its pages, internationally based academics undertake to explore and better understand their own role in collecting, analysing, and presenting rich data about rural women in three very different societies. The book is compelling in terms of its warm personal voices, and also in terms of its attentive and scrupulous scholarship."--Margaret Mackey, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta