Index
Abrego, Leisy J.,
accompaniment (Abrego)
in academia,
conducting interviews in, 49
definition,
inappropriate uses of, 48
nurtured by activism, 48
in participant recruitment,
presentations in,
in project concept, 44
in research methodology,
writing and analysis in,
Akala, on proximity to whiteness,
autotheory, 3, See also Cooppan, Vilashini; Hartman, Saidiya; Nelson, Maggie; positionality; Williams, Patricia
Ballakrishnen, Swethaa S., 149
Accidental Feminism, 139, 142, 144, , , See ‘local north’ advantages, See fragility, brahmin or savarna
Invisible Institutionalisms, 10,
“long table” methodology,
queer methods in research, 144
research methods, 140
in vulnerability politics, 156
Ballakrishnen, Swethaa S., out of place(ness)
effect of shifting urban/global/savarna/cis positionalities, 146
gender fluidity, queer identity, and methodology,
and hegemonies,
odd/identity to make legal theory, 149
and queer citizenship, 153
queer failure, and being “in place”, 158
research methods,
and shifting identities,
in vulnerability politics, 149
Baxi, Pratiksha, out of place(ness)
during arrival in court,
getting permissions,
male secrecy and, 133
in Nyaya Mandir (district court),
in relations with prosecutors,
scolding as pedagogical tool, 125
secrecy and, , 132
secrecy, alterity, and,
Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, out of place(ness)
Dutch colonial past and,
multiplicity,
benefits of positionality,
bridge from positivism to postmodernism, 11
commuicating privileges, 13
connection, 9
creating space for diverse positions,
credibility, 9
identifying marginality,
in social science development,
Blee, Kathleen, 13
Boittin, Margaret L., out of place(ness)
in China,
and Chinese myths about Western female sexuality,
components of,
inquisitiveness among male academic colleagues,
as a methodological choice, 86
Russia and China compared, 85
in Russian sex industry,
in the sex industry,
as a source of strength,
through fieldwork encounters, 89
burdens of positionality,
anxiety and ennervation,
challenging peer review and consent,
reproducing law’s elite status, 22
risk that identity supercedes theory,
Catatumbo (Colombia), , 170
Barí resistance,
Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone,
oil’s impact on, 167
plunder, (post)colonial history of,
weather, cultural impact of,
Chua, Lynette J.
resistance, lived experience of, , 110
Chua, Lynette J., out of place(ness)
in childhood,
in Filial Responsibility, Aging, and Law,
in Mobilizing Gay Singapore,
in The Politics of Love,
Colombia,
conventions in academia
anti-qualitative bias, 37
emergence of positionality,
marginalization through methodological training, 37
Coombe, Rosemary, 161
Cooppan, Vilashini, 3
critical participatory action research (Torre et al.), 78
cultural politics of emotions, 151
disconnection, 22
emotional positioning
by audiences,
by authors,
emotions, 13
academic bias against, 37
clarifying emotional labor, 47
as methodological tool, 10,
potential misuse in research,
erasure of positionality, 13
Eslava, Luis
power, law, and apartment ad,
trigueño identity in childhood,
Eslava, Luis, out of place(ness)
in international law narratives,
in multiple South identities,
in a world in convulsion,
ethics of fear, 154
exclusion of marginal identities
from early social science discourse, 2
fieldwork. See also Gustafson, Kaaryn
blurring insider-outsider lines in, 85
centrality of subjectivity in,
circumscribed by male desire, ,
class, gender, or racial privilege in, 12
emotion and positionality in, ,
ethnographic, 7
exhaustion in, 101
feelings of isolation in, 2
identity and positionality in, 59
impact of identity on,
impact on critical distance, 60
intersectionality in, 60
positionality in, , , 116,
Galanter, Marc, 12
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 40
Gómez, Laura,
Goodrich, Peter, 126
grounded research, 5
Gulf Oil (Chevron) in Colombia,
identification
and trauma, 71
identity, 15
as device of social inequity, 9
as fieldwork strategy, 100
geo-historical formations and,
“lack of”, 180
and marginality, 4
as methodological strategy, , 148
over theory,
positionality in, ,
in positionality statements,
and power,
recovering history through, 21
risks of positioning,
temporality and interaction in, 147
as theory-building strategy,
versus positionality, 59
insider status, 15, 120, 194, 206
and cultural repertoire, 12
dangers of category, 21
meaning,
value of sharing, 6
interviews, academic job
illegal questions about identity in,
Invisible Institutionalisms.and Sara Dezalay, 10
Jing Ye Si (Thoughts on a Quiet Night),
out-of-placeness in, 117
Journal of Law and Society (JLS), 14
Law & Society Review (LSR), 14
law and society journals
author positionality,
minority status of marginalized authors,
white/male invisibility,
law, shaping understanding of, ,
Massoud, Mark Fathi, out of place(ness)
in professional discourse,
projected by others,
in research, 8
Meintjes, Louise, 66
Merton, Robert (Meyer Schkolnick), 3
methods, research, , 48
academic status and,
affectivity and, 156
emotions and, 51
importance of positionality to,
positionality in, , 21
quantitative, and positionality, 17
vulnerability in, 157
(mis)education, 76
Moore, R. Laurence, 24
objectivity, 6
challenging standard of, 10,
emotional attachment in, 51
expectations of, , 53
shortcomings, 22
as value in law, 135
odd/identity,
Osuna, Steven, 37
positionality
disciplinary function of, 173
positionality by others
in academia,
positionality statements, 29
benefits, 6
emotional work,
potential harm of silence, 7
potential harm of speaking, 7
search terms, 15
qualitative research, 37, See also Hoffman, Elizabeth; positionality; quantitative research
disclosing positionality in, 21
power of personal connection in,
quantitative epistemologies
shortcomings,
quantitative research
class, gender, or racial privilege in fieldwork, 17
positionality’s impact on, 17
privileged status in academia,
privileged status in sociology, 37
queerness
definition of, 139
readers’ reports,
schooling in conventions
Scott, Joan, 21
settler colonialism
in Africa, 77
ideals, 77
and objectivity standards (Morgansen), 39
and Salvadoran government, 36
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera, 10
Shklovsky, Viktor,
social sciences
conditions of knowledge in, 4
consequenes of objectivity standard in, 6
outsider-in perspective,
positionality in, 160
South Africa
emerging voices, 78
repressed past under current constitution, 78
traditional courts, 62
Traditional Courts Bill, 61
vigilantism, 63
South Sudan, 12
status ambiguity (Gustafson), 11
Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi, out of place(ness)
in academia,
Black identity and,
critical participatory action research and, 78
in host relations, 57,
identification and empathy strategy,
insights from,
intersectionality in,
in local poverty, 67
others impose,
precarity in, 77
in research, 62
responses to,
through gender, 67
as a tool of decolonization, 77
white fragility (concept), 74
white logic(s) and white methods, 77
whitestream (concept), 77
Williams, Patricia, 3
Winfield, Taylor Paige,
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