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Methodological Musings

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Writing about people you don’t like: On aversion and empathy in research

In this Methodological Musings post, Marianne González Le Saux (University of Chile) reflects on aversion and empathy in research.

by Marianne González Le Saux | 9 April 2025
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Translating Lived Reality to “Academic Knowledge”: Epistemic Injustice in an Ethnographic Account of Sexual Consent in the Global South

In this Methodological Musings post, Mini Saxena (SOAS) reflects on her research on conditional consent in the Global South.

by Mini Saxena | 12 March 2025
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Doing collective courtroom ethnography in times of exceptionality: the Chilean social outburst of 2019

In this post for Methodological Musings, Jeanne Hersant reflects on collective courtroom ethnography, highlighting its adaptability and potential to foster public accountability.

by Jeanne Hersant | 12 February 2025
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Discourse analysis of court judgments: An effective (and sufficient) method for critically analysing judicial conceptions of justice

In this post for Methodological Musings, Bhavna Ramji explores using an text analysis of verdicts to understand how judges construct justice.

by Bhavna Ramji | 15 January 2025
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Using A Lived Linguistic Landscape Approach for Socio-Legal Insight

In this post for Methodological Musings, Alexandra Grey explores linguistic landscape approaches to analyse how language displays reveal power dynamics, using Zhuang in China as a case study.

by Alexandra Grey | 6 November 2024
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Talking in Bangla, writing in English: Challenges of Translating interview data to foreign language and its significance for knowledge construction

In this post for Methodological Musings, Arpeeta Shams Mizan reflects on the challenges of translating interview material for research presented to foreign audiences.

by Arpeeta Shams Mizan | 9 October 2024
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A reflection on power dynamics and equality in participatory action research

In this piece for Methodological Musings, Rebecca French (Northumbria) reflects on valuing knowledge in Participatory Action Research.

by Rebecca French | 11 September 2024
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Discourse – more than the languages of law

In this post for Methodological Musings, Bettina Lange discusses discourse analysis as a tool for understanding how various ways of producing knowledge can inform Socio-Legal ordering.

by Bettina Lange | 17 July 2024
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Today I’m brown, tomorrow I’m black: Is it time to revisit how we construct demographic data about ethnicity?

In this post for Methodological Musings, Professor Linda Mulcahy interrogates how ethnicity is constructed in census data.

by Linda Mulcahy | 19 June 2024
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The ethical dilemmas of collecting research data on X

In this post for Methodological Musings, Dr. Addadzi-Koom reflects on navigating contradictory ethics guidelines regarding data collection on social media.

by Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom | 22 May 2024