TY - JOUR
T1 - Video-reflexive ethnography as potentiation technology
T2 - What about investigative quality?
AU - Iedema, Rick
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - This article has three aims. First, it will set out the ‘potentiating’ premises of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) and the ways in which VRE potentiates learning through visual feedback as ‘self-irritant’ that invites ‘liminalisation’. Liminalisation invites people to learn by stepping away from their taken-as-given ways of being and saying. Potentiation capitalises on this loosening of identification with what is assumed to be the real, thereby expanding people’s action potential. The article’s second aim is to exemplify what VRE looks like in and as practice. Two case studies provide instances of liminalisation. This leads into the article’s third aim: to reflect on research quality in relation to liminalisation and potentiation. This part of the paper explains that VRE’s quality standard turns on two ‘relational’ indicators that apply to both the researchers’ and the participants’ conducts and experiences: engagement and movement. The article theorises engagement as a measure of researchers’ and participants’ investment in the overall VRE process. Movement is theorised as the pace and degree of liminalisation experienced and potentiation achieved through people’s psychosocial becoming (undone).
AB - This article has three aims. First, it will set out the ‘potentiating’ premises of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) and the ways in which VRE potentiates learning through visual feedback as ‘self-irritant’ that invites ‘liminalisation’. Liminalisation invites people to learn by stepping away from their taken-as-given ways of being and saying. Potentiation capitalises on this loosening of identification with what is assumed to be the real, thereby expanding people’s action potential. The article’s second aim is to exemplify what VRE looks like in and as practice. Two case studies provide instances of liminalisation. This leads into the article’s third aim: to reflect on research quality in relation to liminalisation and potentiation. This part of the paper explains that VRE’s quality standard turns on two ‘relational’ indicators that apply to both the researchers’ and the participants’ conducts and experiences: engagement and movement. The article theorises engagement as a measure of researchers’ and participants’ investment in the overall VRE process. Movement is theorised as the pace and degree of liminalisation experienced and potentiation achieved through people’s psychosocial becoming (undone).
KW - becoming
KW - liminality
KW - participatory video research
KW - potentiation technologies
KW - reflexivity
KW - video ethnography
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088424725&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14780887.2020.1794087
DO - 10.1080/14780887.2020.1794087
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088424725
SN - 1478-0887
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Qualitative Research in Psychology
JF - Qualitative Research in Psychology
ER -