Local and Transnational Identity, Positionality and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora

Autor/inn/en	Adebayo, Kudus Oluwatoyin; Njoku, Emeka T.
Titel	Local and Transnational Identity, Positionality and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora
Quelle	In: Field Methods, 35 (2023) 1, S.18-32 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Njoku, Emeka T.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-822X
DOI	10.1177/1525822X211051574
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Science Research; Researchers; Interpersonal Relationship; Power Structure; Sociology; Political Science; Ethnography; Field Studies; Africa; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Researcher; Forscher; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Soziologie; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Ethnografie; Praxisforschung; Afrika
Abstract	How does shared identity between researcher and the researched influence trust-building for data generation and knowledge production? We reflect on this question based on two separate studies conducted by African-based researchers in sociology and political science in Nigeria. We advanced two interrelated positions. The first underscores the limits of national belonging as shorthand for insiderness, while the second argues that when shared national/group identity is tensioned other intersecting positions and relations take prominence. We also show that the researched challenge and resist unequal power relations through interview refusal or by evading issues that the researcher considers important, but the participant perceives as intrusive. We shed light on the vagaries, overlaps, and similarities in the dynamics of belonging and positionality in researching Africans in and outside Africa as home-based researchers. Our contribution advances the understanding of field dynamics in the production of local and cross-border knowledge on Africa/Africans. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01