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Presentation
Inquiry Practices in Transnational Contexts
Conference on College Composition and Communication (2015)
  • Kate Mangelsdorf, University of Texas at El Paso
Abstract
This presentation focuses on the research risks and rewards experienced by the previous speakers, including pragmatic issues such as obtaining IRB approval, accessing technology, and communicating in more than one language.   I will also give an overview of how common research methodologies, such as ethnography, feminist rhetorical investigations, various schools of grounded theory, and critical discourse analysis might alter their approaches in global research settings.    Most significantly, I will point to the need to develop a critical orientation toward transnational research in digital spaces, one that insistently questions the researcher’s positionality and the economic, cultural, linguistic and gendered power dynamics in which this research is conducted.   I will conclude by offering the audience a series of heuristics intended to provoke questions, challenges, and collaborations on this topic. 
Keywords
  • transnational,
  • writing research
Publication Date
March, 2015
Citation Information
Kate Mangelsdorf. "Inquiry Practices in Transnational Contexts" Conference on College Composition and Communication (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kate_mangelsdorf/18/