On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings

IF 3.2 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Sharron FitzGerald
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In this article, I analyse the methodological issues that arise when I accept a judge's invitation to observe her hear women testify in criminal proceedings against their traffickers at the district courthouse in X, Germany. I develop a theoretical framework using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of embodied power and his methods of epistemic reflexivity and participant objectivation, and feminist engagements with affect theory. I use my fieldwork experience with a judicial gatekeeper and in conducting ethnographic observational research ‘behind the scenes of formal law’ to interrogate how bodies, emotions and affects inform power in the spaces of criminal law. Specifically, I approach bodies, emotions and affects as conceptual tools with which to interrogate how power transmits when I ‘enter’ and ‘read’ the field, and make claims to ‘know’ the subject under study. Core to my analysis is a critical process of self-reflection, through which I challenge the assumptions that underpin my assessment of my research participants’ ability to consent to participate in my study.
关于 "被动观察者":刑事诉讼中被贩运妇女观察研究中权力的肉体和情感维度
在本文中,我分析了当我接受一位法官的邀请,在德国 X 市的地方法院旁听妇女在针对人贩子的刑事诉讼中作证时所产生的方法论问题。我利用皮埃尔-布迪厄的具身权力理论及其认识论反身性和参与者客观性方法,以及女性主义的情感理论,建立了一个理论框架。我利用与一名司法守门人的实地工作经验,以及在 "正式法律幕后 "进行人种学观察研究的经验,来探讨身体、情绪和情感如何为刑法空间中的权力提供信息。具体而言,我将身体、情绪和情感作为概念工具,当我 "进入 "和 "阅读 "该领域并声称 "了解 "所研究的对象时,以此来审视权力是如何传播的。我的分析的核心是一个批判性的自我反思过程,通过这个过程,我挑战了我对研究参与者同意参与我的研究的能力所做的评估所依据的假设。
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期刊介绍: Qualitative Research is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on the methodological diversity and multi-disciplinary focus of qualitative research within the social sciences. Research based on qualitative methods, and methodological commentary on such research, have expanded exponentially in the past decades. This is the case across a number of disciplines including sociology, social anthropology, health and nursing, education, cultural studies, human geography, social and discursive psychology, and discourse studies.
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