Making the Most of Culture and Context: Sociocultural Strengths and Contextual Vulnerability When Eliciting Indigenous Resilience Insights With Remote South African Elders and Young People

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

LieselEbersöhn¹ 

关键词: case study;    community-based research;    emancipatory research;    grounded theory;    interpretive description;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406918798434

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Research aimed at generating evidence to address elicitation challenges that arise because of extreme inequality and marginalized perspectives requires deliberation on relevant methodologies that can elicit insights by both revering marginalized sociocultural strengths and being sensitive to power imbalances. In this article, we provide examples of participatory methods that make the most of often silenced non-Western sociocultural strengths and create opportunities for participation despite barriers due to inequality. The examples emerged from multiple researcher journals and visual data from a study that documented indigenous psychology on resilience with elders (n = 24; male = 10, female = 14) and young people (n = 48; male = 21, female = 27) in two remote Southern African border communities. We describe the examples of elicitation methods to make the most of culture using (i) symbols that reflect nonmainstream sociocultural perspectives, (ii) familiar multiliteracies, (iii) a variety of spoken languag...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC