Positionality: Difference between revisions

From Le Hub/The Climate Justice Organizing HUB
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 9: Line 9:
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
= Examples of positionality statements =
= Examples of positionality statements <ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/14756811/Positionality-Statements-1621354517813.pdf</ref>  =


{| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 92px; background-color: #ffffff;"
{| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 92px; background-color: #ffffff;"
|- style="height: 23px;"
|- style="height: 23px;"
| style="width: 19.6976%; height: 23px; background-color: #99e1d9;" |
| style="width: 19.6976%; height: 23px; background-color: #99e1d9;" |
'''Disposability discourse'''
Davis, S. M. (2018) The aftermath of #BlackGirlsRock vs. #WhiteGirlsRock: considering the disrespectability of a Black women’s counterpublic.&nbsp;
| style="width: 80.3024%; height: 23px;" |
| style="width: 80.3024%; height: 23px;" |
Much discussion around the severity of COVID was lessened by expressing how it mainly sickens and kills elderly, chronically ill, and disabled people. This discourse suggests these groups are seen disposable.&nbsp;
"Before I present the findings, and in the spirit of self-reflexivity, I acknowledge my standpoint as an educated Black American woman. I am not an avid participant in Black online spaces such as comments sections, but I have observed the interactions of other users, advocated for Black online spaces, and am intrigued by the use of language to mark and protect cultural identities. I acknowledge that my positionality influenced this project to some extent; my member resources proved to be important tools that helped me make meaning of the text."
|- style="height: 23px;"
|- style="height: 23px;"
| style="width: 19.6976%; height: 23px; background-color: #99e1d9;" |
| style="width: 19.6976%; height: 23px; background-color: #99e1d9;" |
'''Loosened restrictions too early'''
Humble, Á. M. (2013). Moving from ambivalence to certainty: Older same-sex couples marry in Canada
| style="width: 80.3024%; height: 23px;" |
| style="width: 80.3024%; height: 23px;" |
When governments loosened COVID restrictions in response to business demands, political pressure, and public impatience, rather than scientific evidence, high risk populations (the chronically ill, disabled and elderly) were subsequently told they are disposable yet again.&nbsp;
"One of the epistemological assumptions of the social constructionist/interpretivist paradigm is that there is not one reality but many realities “that can be articulated based on the values, standpoints, and positions of the author” (Daly, 2007 , p. 33). Thus, I offer these findings as only one possible interpretation of these individuals’ experiences based on my standpoint as a middle-aged, heterosexual, married woman (which I revealed either directly or indirectly to everyone I interviewed) who has conducted research on heterosexual weddings in the past (Humble, 2009 ; Humble, Zvonkovic, & Walker, 2008). I believe marriage is a right that all couples should have regardless of their sexual orientation, but my focus on the transition to marriage does not mean I devalue other types of committed relationships, particularly the common-law, cohabiting relationships of many long-term same-sex couples."
|- style="height: 23px;"
| style="width: 19.6976%; height: 23px; background-color: #99e1d9;" |
'''Working through illness'''
| style="width: 80.3024%; height: 23px;" |
Regulations around how many sick days should be required when someone falls ill with COVID also demonstrated ableism. In relation to these regulations, and in favour of profit above health, many politicians including US President Joe Biden, praised themselves for working through COVID, instead of encouraging people to rest and recover if they'd fallen ill.&nbsp;
|- style="height: 23px;"
| style="width: 19.6976%; height: 23px; background-color: #99e1d9;" |
'''Individualism'''
| style="width: 80.3024%; height: 23px;" |
Individuals have been encouraged to make 'personal' choices on vaccines (without legitimate health restrictions), masks and gatherings.
 
"''There is no individual safety without collective safety and collective safety requires that no one is safe unless everyone is safe." - Mia Mingus  <ref>https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/</ref>  ''
 
|}
|}
If you have any suggested revisions or additional resources to share related to the above content, please email them to kenzie@lehub.ca.
If you have any suggested revisions or additional resources to share related to the above content, please email them to kenzie@lehub.ca.
<br>[[File:Creative commons.png|300px|link=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/|center|frameless]]
<br>[[File:Creative commons.png|300px|link=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/|center|frameless]]

Revision as of 21:46, 18 November 2022

Positionality, coined by Linda Alcoff, emphasizes how lived experiences and social identities — such as race, class, and gender — shape our worldviews; the process of unpacking one’s position, or social location, within systems of oppression. - Alison Hope & Julian Agyeman. Adapted by Michelle Xie [1]



Understanding positionality



Examples of positionality statements [2]

Davis, S. M. (2018) The aftermath of #BlackGirlsRock vs. #WhiteGirlsRock: considering the disrespectability of a Black women’s counterpublic. 

"Before I present the findings, and in the spirit of self-reflexivity, I acknowledge my standpoint as an educated Black American woman. I am not an avid participant in Black online spaces such as comments sections, but I have observed the interactions of other users, advocated for Black online spaces, and am intrigued by the use of language to mark and protect cultural identities. I acknowledge that my positionality influenced this project to some extent; my member resources proved to be important tools that helped me make meaning of the text."

Humble, Á. M. (2013). Moving from ambivalence to certainty: Older same-sex couples marry in Canada

"One of the epistemological assumptions of the social constructionist/interpretivist paradigm is that there is not one reality but many realities “that can be articulated based on the values, standpoints, and positions of the author” (Daly, 2007 , p. 33). Thus, I offer these findings as only one possible interpretation of these individuals’ experiences based on my standpoint as a middle-aged, heterosexual, married woman (which I revealed either directly or indirectly to everyone I interviewed) who has conducted research on heterosexual weddings in the past (Humble, 2009 ; Humble, Zvonkovic, & Walker, 2008). I believe marriage is a right that all couples should have regardless of their sexual orientation, but my focus on the transition to marriage does not mean I devalue other types of committed relationships, particularly the common-law, cohabiting relationships of many long-term same-sex couples."

If you have any suggested revisions or additional resources to share related to the above content, please email them to kenzie@lehub.ca.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.


Back to Homepage