Diskin2024

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Diskin2024
BibType ARTICLE
Key Diskin2024
Author(s) Khadijah Diskin, Phil Hutchinson
Title Critical praxeological analysis: respecifying critical research
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Tag(s) EMCA, Critical phenomenology, Critical praxeological analysis, Critical qualitative research, Praxeological gestalt, Praxeology
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Year 2024
Language English
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Journal Qualitative Research in Psychology
Volume 21
Number 4
Pages 512-535
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DOI 10.1080/14780887.2024.2365862
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In this paper we introduce Critical Praxeological Analysis (CPA). CPA respecifies critical studies and researrch by operationalising insights from gestalt psychology and, in particular, the praxeological and linguistic gestalts identified by Harold Garfinkel and Ludwig Wittgenstein. CPA offers a framework for analysing the in-situ production, maintenance, challenging, repair and overcoming of norms and structures. Using naturally occuring data, as well as fictional and imagined examples, CPA examines the meanings that situations have for the participants who constitute them. The paper provides brief praxeological analyses, which draw upon themes from Frantz Fanon’s work to illustrate CPA in practice. We conclude by inviting others to apply CPA to themes drawn from the critical studies literature, in the hope that such analyses will deepen our understanding of how norms and structures are produced, maintained, challenged, repaired and overcome in interaction.

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