Post-research reflexivity in qualitative research: Through cloaks and cross-threading

Janine Natalya Clark*

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Abstract

This interdisciplinary Note is a creative form of writing that engages in post-research reflexivity through a process that it terms ‘cross-threading’. Using the trope of a cloak, which it links back to the author’s childhood imaginings of having an invisibility cloak, it cross-threads through the medium of this cloak a series of thoughts and feelings about a recently concluded research project (led by the author) exploring some of the ways that victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence demonstrate resilience. Drawing on empirical data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, it illustrates the utility of the cloak as a thinking practice in relation to some of the stories that interviewees told, and it highlights the relevance of the cloak as a way of thinking about resilience. It also discusses the cloak as an identity, and in so doing it draws attention to an important aspect of the research process that is rarely talked about – the feelings, emotions and anxieties that researchers might experience when a major study or project ends. This Note concludes by underlining the potential benefits to researchers of having an acoustic cloak.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1076-1085
Number of pages10
JournalQualitative Research
Volume24
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • cloaks
  • identity
  • invisibility
  • protection
  • reflexivity
  • resilience

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