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Positionality and researcher reflexivity - how to account for one's subject position - remain as challenges for new researchers. But they also remain as challenges for experienced researchers, who are often involved in multiple research projects simultaneously. Where Am I in the Picture? sheds light on the idea of researcher positionality through visual methodologies, particularly in the context of studying rurality in Canada, Sweden and South Africa. The book is intended for new and experienced researchers seeking to decolonise their own perspectives in research in the social sciences and humanities. It incorporates photographs, drawings, and memory work to highlight the social constructedness of what counts as rural. Drawing together compelling narratives from researchers about their positionality in studying rurality, the book highlights a need for greater attention to 'where we are in the picture' more broadly. It suggests that when it comes to the rural, researchers need to rethink the interplay of dominant images, insider and outsider perspectives, and what this interplay means in relation to interpretation. Where Am I in the Picture? presents a new vision of how to take into consideration positionality in research.

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"""This bold and intriguing book considers the vital question of a researcher's own situation, as raised by women exploring issues of gender-based violence in South Africa, Sweden, and Canada. In thirteen diverse and lively chapters, lavishly illustrated by photographs whose guiding assumptions are also put under the microscope, this collection raises questions that are simultaneously profoundly personal and productively rigorous. In its pages, internationally based academics undertake to explore and better understand their own role in collecting, analysing, and presenting rich data about rural women in three very different societies. The book is compelling in terms of its warm personal voices, and also in terms of its attentive and scrupulous scholarship."" - Margaret Mackey, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta ""This feminist work on rurality and girlhood is a welcome and timely addition to the literature. It not only disrupts dominant narratives of girlhood and rurality but also shows how researchers' positionalities profoundly shape their nuanced understanding of their work. There is no doubt that visual methodologies, skilfully and creatively employed as central to the book, generate a formidable transnational ecology of knowledge. Highly recommended!!"" - Ronelle Carolissen, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University"

"""This feminist work on rurality and girlhood is a welcome and timely addition to the literature. It not only disrupts dominant narratives of girlhood and rurality but also shows how researchers' positionalities profoundly shape their nuanced understanding of their work. There is no doubt that visual methodologies, skilfully and creatively employed as central to the book, generate a formidable transnational ecology of knowledge. Highly recommended!!""--Ronelle Carolissen, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University ""This bold and intriguing book considers the vital question of a researcher's own situation, as raised by women exploring issues of gender-based violence in South Africa, Sweden, and Canada. In thirteen diverse and lively chapters, lavishly illustrated by photographs whose guiding assumptions are also put under the microscope, this collection raises questions that are simultaneously profoundly personal and productively rigorous. In its pages, internationally based academics undertake to explore and better understand their own role in collecting, analysing, and presenting rich data about rural women in three very different societies. The book is compelling in terms of its warm personal voices, and also in terms of its attentive and scrupulous scholarship.""--Margaret Mackey, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta"

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Claudia Mitchell is a distinguished James McGill professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and an honorary professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Katarina Giritli-Nygren is a professor of sociology at Mid Sweden University. Relebohile Moletsane is the JL Dube chair in rural education in the School of Education and the pro vice chancellor of social cohesion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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