"Yes, And": Graduate Students Conducting Qualitative Methods During/After COVID

Session Submission Type: Virtual Roundtable

Session Description

Adapting qualitative research methods after COVID19


This panel offer a space for current graduate students to reflect on lost opportunities for conducting fieldwork in light of COVID19, but with an eye toward pivoting and challenging ourselves to say “yes, and” (in the spirit of LeeAnn Fujii) in coming up with new directions and modes of qualitative research. In the first half of the panel, Charmaine Willis, Colleen Wood, Lauren Konken, and Gözde Böcü will discuss the challenges of transitioning ethnographic, interview, and archival research when traditional spaces of conducting these types of fieldwork are disrupted. The panelists will discuss adaptation that is creative, productive, respectful, and ethical both during and after the pandemic, while also interrogating the question of what fieldsite access means after COVID19. In the second part of the panel, Marnie Howlett, Shauna Gillooly, Luisa Turbino Torres, and Ramon Garibaldo will discuss how the pandemic has laid bare or transformed questions of ethics and power underlying qualitative research. This roundtable brings together young scholars working on a range of qualitative methods in field sites across the world, as well as across subfields in the study of political science.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Interpretive Methodologies & Methods

Cosponsor

• Division 46: Qualitative Methods

Chair

• Marnie - Howlett University of Oxford

Presenters

• Lauren C. Konken Princeton University

• Charmaine N. Willis University at Albany, SUNY

• Colleen Wood Columbia University

• Gözde Böcü University of Toronto

• Ramon Garibaldo Valdez Yale University

• Luisa Fernanda Turbino Torres

• Shauna N Gillooly University of California, Irvine