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Meaning Making Change: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and an Epistemology of Power

Meaning Making Change: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and an Epistemology of Power

Denise Michelle Brend
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781799858263|ISBN10: 179985826X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799866046|EISBN13: 9781799858270
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5826-3.ch005
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Brend, Denise Michelle. "Meaning Making Change: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and an Epistemology of Power." Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research, edited by Abir El Shaban, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 96-117. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5826-3.ch005

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Brend, D. M. (2021). Meaning Making Change: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and an Epistemology of Power. In A. El Shaban (Ed.), Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research (pp. 96-117). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5826-3.ch005

Chicago

Brend, Denise Michelle. "Meaning Making Change: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and an Epistemology of Power." In Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research, edited by Abir El Shaban, 96-117. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5826-3.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter describes how an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) study generated perceived risk for stakeholders and for participants. Here, perceived risk was interpreted through discourses and practices specific to intimate partner violence contexts that influenced intimate partner violence professionals' subjective experiences. These risk-responses were a fundamental threat to the purpose of the research: to contribute to meaningful change for the participants in their contexts. The clash between the research aim and the risk-responses opened a theoretical space for reflection about power and knowledge relationships in lived experience and meaning-making in IPA research. Specifically, this chapter addresses the question of whether the current epistemological stance grounding IPA research leads to meaning-making that reproduces knowledge in a form that overlooks the omnipresent influence of power and knowledge dynamics. Butler's philosophies of power, knowledge, subjectivity, and performativity are explored as means of expanding the epistemological foundation of IPA.

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