Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies

Dr. Dawn Onishenko is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. ‘Nob’ Doran (né[e] Chris) is a Professor in the department of social science at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Rose Ann Torres is the Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Algoma University. Dr. Dionisio Nyaga is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Algoma University.

Acknowledgements


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Dawn Onishenko, Nob Doran, Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga



Part 1

Critical Review of Qualitative Research Approaches

1 Making Research Black and Strange Why History Matters in the Current Disappearing World

  Dionisio Nyaga



2 Grounded Theory: Effects of covid-19 on Homeless Youth Methodological Reflections

  Dionisio Nyaga, Dawn Onishenko and Rose Ann Torres



3 Reflexivity, Recursion and Re-evaluation Some Reflections On ‘Institutional Ethnography’

  Nob Doran



Part 2

Overview of Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies

4 Resisting through Research Developing a Qualitative “Mixed Methods” Approach in Research with Sex Workers

  Laura Winters



5 Beyond Codified Logics of Ethics Jungle and the Ethics of Non-violence

  Dionisio Nyaga



6 Africa beyond Africa Afro-pessimism as an Ethical Demand

  Waywaya Nyaga and Dionisio Nyaga



7 Markets Logics in Research Process and the Denigration of Black Bodies

  Dionisio Nyaga



Part 3

Critical Reflexive Research Methods

8 Teaching to the Tensions Pushing the Boundaries of Qualitative Social Work Research

  Susan Preston, Susan Silver and Purnima George



9 Qualitative Research as Resistance The Use of Vignettes to Support Situated Knowledge and the Deconstruction of Colonial Policies

  Laura Wyper



10 Remembering in Research Doing Research in Asian Communities

  Rose Ann Torres



11 Application of Research to Africa’s Peace and Security Conundrum The Ethical and Moral Divide between the Ideal and the Real

  Michael Sitawa



Part 4

Reflexivity and Ethics

12 Ethics of Doing Research in the Indigenous Community

  Rose Ann Torres



13 A Reflexive Gaze on Qualitative Policy Research Deconstructing Traditional Policy Research with the Interface of Youth-Voice and Arts-Based Focus Groups

  Dawn Onishenko and Julie Erbland



14 A Co-constructed Critical Autoethnographical Conversation with Social Work Students Regarding Reflexive Research Engagement

  Marco Giuliani, Michelle Brochu, Albina Magomedova, Michelle Boehm and Dawn Onishenko



15 Arendtian Phenomenology of Politics

  Lawrence Ofunja Kangei



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