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(2018) Power, culture and situated research methodology, Dordrecht, Springer.
The researcher's goal in the field is instrumental; it is to create as much data as possible within the worldly constraints that bear on her situation. The objective is to make the informant talk about what the researcher is interested in, be that the life stories of prisoners, the identity of diplomats or the body techniques of female cleaners. The better situated the researcher, the better the data yield. In Chap. 4, we discussed some Gestalt concepts that may be of help in this regard. In this chapter, we look at another Gestalt contribution that is important, not least as a dampener on the instrumentalisation of interlocutors that inevitably follows from the researchers seeing them as sources of data to be mined.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59217-6_5
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Neumann, I. B. (2018). Interview techniques, in Power, culture and situated research methodology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 63-77.
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