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Catching gender-Identity production in flight : making the commonplace visible

Coulthard, Darryl W. 2010, Catching gender-Identity production in flight : making the commonplace visible, Journal of research practice, vol. 5, no. 2.

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Title Catching gender-Identity production in flight : making the commonplace visible
Author(s) Coulthard, Darryl W.
Journal name Journal of research practice
Volume number 5
Issue number 2
Total pages 1
Publisher Athabasca University
Place of publication Athabasca, Canada
Publication date 2010
ISSN 1712-851X
Keyword(s) gender-identity
self-identity
research method
social constructionism
Summary The purpose of this article is to develop and illustrate an approach for making the commonplace visible in a natural, as opposed to manipulated, social setting. The key research task was to find a way of capturing the ongoing production or enactment of the self that provides some insight into the way in which it is produced in a routine, matter of fact way. The article takes a number of steps to develop a research approach to the task. First, gender-identity was selected as a more specific aspect of self-production. Second, the concept of “flashpoints” was used to refer to a particular moment in the routine which achieves some significance or salience as a result of the participants seizing upon some otherwise unremarkable action or statement and twisting it to their purpose. In this study, the purpose was gender-identity creation. Primary school children in the classroom and their teachers were the participants of the study. Through the use of flashpoints, the article demonstrates how gender-identity production of these children can be caught in flight. The article concludes that this approach can be added to the researcher’s toolkit.
Language eng
Field of Research 169901 Gender Specific Studies
Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
HERDC collection year 2010
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30029093

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