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Interrogating (Un)Masking in Qualitative Inquiry at the Intersections of Critical Geographies and Spatial Justice

Thu, April 21, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm PDT), SIG Virtual Rooms, SIG-Qualitative Research Virtual Paper Session Room

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

When scholars mask participants and sites for research purposes, they might also question what is lost. We argue in this symposium that what might be lost includes the possibilities that attention to the specific offers political implications for education research (Lester & Anders, 2018), and the significance of positioning research practice as process (Anders, 2012). We explore how a more reflexive interrogation of masking, protection, and anonymity could benefit the local context of our research and its utility in pursuit of a more just and relational future. We offer spatially focused approaches as means by which to enact un/masking practices that respond to the specific and the political that the places in which we work, produce, and research imply.

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