Negotiating access to the problematised subject:

Bomela, Yolisa; Feltham-King, Tracey; Macleod, Catriona

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Title: Negotiating access to the problematised subject:
Creator: Bomela, Yolisa
Creator: Feltham-King, Tracey
Creator: Macleod, Catriona
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143816
Identifier: vital:38285
Identifier: https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: Our ethnography at public antenatal and postnatal clinics involved collecting data from a variety of sources constituting the reproductive healthcare nexus, including interviews with teenaged pregnant and mothering women. We discuss the complexities of trying to propose these interviews to the University ethics committee and difficulties in gaining access to the state healthcare facilities. We also consider a recurring disjuncture in our negotiations for access. The teenaged subject we imagined and anticipated in our research proposal contradicted the already problematized subject the gatekeepers assumed we were going to meet. Further, while our intention was to focus on the myriad aspects of the context which contributed to the construction of the reproductive teenaged subject, the enduring assumption was that our focus should and would be on the individual teenaged pregnant or mothering woman. We discuss balancing these contradictory assumptions and strategies to avoid re-inscribing the taken-for-granted existing institutional hierarchical power relations.
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP)
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