Shifting positionalities across international locations: Embodied knowledge, time‐geography, and the polyvalence of privilege
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Torres‐Olave, B, Lee, JJ. Shifting positionalities across international locations: Embodied knowledge, time‐geography, and the polyvalence of privilege. Higher Educ Q. 2020; 74: 136– 148. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12216Journal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Despite a robust body of scholarship on positionality, the practice of international Higher Education research often neglects engagement with the varied, fluid and complex positionalities of researchers across national boundaries. Through a series of vignettes, the authors argue for reflexivity that extends beyond rigid social identities and towards embodied knowledge, or self-understanding that is mutable and context responsive. For international mobile researchers especially, new affinities can evolve through propinquity and social custom, and gradually become incorporated into self-knowledge with the passing of time. Beyond mere cultural competency, this article raises the importance of symbolic competency that simultaneously negotiates the multiple dimensions of language, various forms of capital, as well as evolving social identities in conducting research in different contexts.Note
12 month embargo; published online: 21 June 2019ISSN
0951-5224EISSN
1468-2273Version
Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/hequ.12216