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Researching Powerful People from a Feminist and Anti‐racist Perspective: a note on gender, collusion and marginality
Author(s) -
Neal Sarah
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192950210406
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , collusion , sociology , ethnography , gender studies , racism , feminism , pedagogy , anthropology , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , microeconomics
Abstract Drawing on the fieldwork experiences of my ethnographic, doctoral research into equal opportunities and anti‐racism in higher education and the role of academic trade unions in the policy initiatives in the area, this paper is centrally concerned with the relationship between the researcher and the researched—when the researched are powerful. For me this meant Vice‐Chancellors, Pro‐Vice‐Chancellors, Deans, Heads of Services, senior/famous academics and union officials. The paper seeks to argue that there is a continuing paucity in social research on the powerful and questions, through autobiographical accounts, the extent to which feminist and anti‐racist methodologies/critiques have actually been able to provide a terrain in which this type of research can be conducted.