Narrative productions as feminist research methodology in Critical Social Psychology: Tensions and challenges

Narrative productions as feminist research methodology in Critical Social Psychology: Tensions and challenges

Authors

  • Lelya Troncoso Perez Universidad de Chile
  • Caterine Galaz Valderrama Universidad de Chile
  • Catalina Alvarez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol16-Issue2-fulltext-956

Keywords:

critical social psychology, feminist epistemology, intersectionality, narrative productions, situated knowledges

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the relationship between critical perspectives in social psychology and feminist theories, considering two research experiences with feminist epistemologies and methodologies. Both investigations used narrative productions as a research method and an intersectional gender perspective, emerging from this crosses, tensions and methodological challenges transversal to both disciplines. Tensions guiding our empirical discussion regards to the complex relation between the corporeal and discursive dimensions in the production of knowledge; the problematization of power relations between researchers and the researched when attempting to construct horizontal relationships; and the tension between the practice of interpellation and making uncomfortable feminist critiques. Finally, we propose that the relation between feminist theorizations and critical social psychology facilitates the emergence of new political and theoretical potentials in social research, giving us clues in order to overcome dichotomous, hierarchical and depoliticized visions of social reality still present in classical and hegemonic social psychologies.

Author Biographies

Lelya Troncoso Perez, Universidad de Chile

Investigadora del Programa Psicología Social de la Memoria, Universidad de Chile.

Investigadora del Núcleo de estudios críticos de la diversidad, Universidad de Chile.

Docente de pre y postgrado en la Universidad de Chile y la Universidad Diego Portales. 

 

Caterine Galaz Valderrama, Universidad de Chile

Académica de la carrerea de Trabajo Social, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile.

Coordinadora del Núcleo de estudios críticos de la diversidad, Universidad de Chile.    

Catalina Alvarez

Psicóloga social, Universidad de Chile.

 

Published

2017-07-13

How to Cite

Troncoso Perez, L., Galaz Valderrama, C., & Alvarez, C. (2017). Narrative productions as feminist research methodology in Critical Social Psychology: Tensions and challenges. Psicoperspectivas, 16(2), 20-32. https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol16-Issue2-fulltext-956
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