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  • Practising Reflection: Empathy, Emotion and Intuition in Political Life Writing

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    Corbett, Jack
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    Corbett, Jack
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Attempts to unravel the relationship between scholar and subject are common in life writing and underpin the emphasis on reflexivity in interpretive research. However, while the conceptual basis for reflexive practice is well established, there is less written on how it is actually done. In this article I reflect on how I created a collective portrait of politicians in the Pacific Islands. My rationale for describing how I produced knowledge in this project echoes the call for interpretive researchers and biographers, who wish to become reflexive, to engage in and describe reflexive practices. In doing so, I illustrate how ...
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    Attempts to unravel the relationship between scholar and subject are common in life writing and underpin the emphasis on reflexivity in interpretive research. However, while the conceptual basis for reflexive practice is well established, there is less written on how it is actually done. In this article I reflect on how I created a collective portrait of politicians in the Pacific Islands. My rationale for describing how I produced knowledge in this project echoes the call for interpretive researchers and biographers, who wish to become reflexive, to engage in and describe reflexive practices. In doing so, I illustrate how empathy, emotion and intuition shaped my sources, analysis and writing, and argue that these non-objectivist tools, reflexively considered, have the capacity to enhance our descriptions of the lives we choose to portray.
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    Journal Title
    Life Writing
    Volume
    11
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2013.822390
    Copyright Statement
    © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Life Writing, Vol. 11(3), 2014, pp. 349-365. Life Writing is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
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    Political science not elsewhere classified
    Literary studies
    Other language, communication and culture
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63755
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