Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-21-2019
Publication Title
Higher Education Quarterly
Publisher Name
Wiley
Abstract
Despite a robust body of scholarship on positionality, the practice of international higher education research often neglects engagement with the varied, fluid, and complex positionalities of researchers across national boundaries. Through a series of vignettes, the authors argue for reflexivity that extends beyond rigid social identities and towards embodied knowledge, or selfunderstanding that is mutable and context-responsive. For international mobile researchers especially, new affinities can evolve through propinquity and social custom, and gradually become incorporated into self-knowledge with the passing of time. Beyond mere cultural competency, this article raises the importance of symbolic competency that simultaneously negotiates the multiple dimensions of language, various forms of capital, as well as evolving social identities in conducting research in different contexts.
Recommended Citation
Torres-Olave, Blanca Minerva and Lee, Jenny J.. Shifting Positionalities Across International Locations: Embodied Knowledge, Time-Geography, and the Polyvalence of Privilege. Higher Education Quarterly, , : , 2019. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12216
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Author Posting © Wiley, 2019. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Wiley for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Higher Education Quarterly, June, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12216