Conversations on Positionality with Anne Kirstine Rønn
LSE Middle East Centre
8 episodes
7 months ago
What is the role of positionality in research? How do researchers navigate their nationality, gender, age and personality while being in the field? What challenges and opportunities come with being insider and outsider? In this podcast, LSE Middle East Centre visiting fellow, Anne Kirstine Rønn invites her colleagues to discuss these and many more questions.
Episodes are released each Wednesday.
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What is the role of positionality in research? How do researchers navigate their nationality, gender, age and personality while being in the field? What challenges and opportunities come with being insider and outsider? In this podcast, LSE Middle East Centre visiting fellow, Anne Kirstine Rønn invites her colleagues to discuss these and many more questions.
Episodes are released each Wednesday.
Episode 2: Simon Mabon on Outside Positionality and Shared Humanity
Conversations on Positionality with Anne Kirstine Rønn
24 minutes
2 years ago
Episode 2: Simon Mabon on Outside Positionality and Shared Humanity
In this episode, Anne Kirstine speaks with Simon Mabon about the privileges that come with his positionality and how he, as an outsider, builds trustful and ethical relations with his interlocutors. Simon also shares his thoughts on the role of positionality in teaching and supervision of students.
Simon is Chair in International Politics at Lancaster University and co-director of the Richardson Institute. His work focuses on sovereignty, sectarianism and regional order in the Middle East, and his recent book, The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: The Rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran was published earlier this year.
Conversations on Positionality with Anne Kirstine Rønn
What is the role of positionality in research? How do researchers navigate their nationality, gender, age and personality while being in the field? What challenges and opportunities come with being insider and outsider? In this podcast, LSE Middle East Centre visiting fellow, Anne Kirstine Rønn invites her colleagues to discuss these and many more questions.
Episodes are released each Wednesday.
