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‘Hey, you stylized woman there!’: An uncomfortable reflexive account of performative practices in the field
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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:56 authored by Simidele DosekunThis article presents an uncomfortable reflexive account of a feminist poststructuralist research project on young women in Lagos, Nigeria who dress in what I call “hyper-feminine style.” It reflects on the messy processes by which I framed the research and recruited participants, and considers how the women who did or did not eventually take part exercised agency to resist the terms of my address. The article illustrates the usefulness of Butler’s (1997a) theoretical notions of “excitable discourse” and “performative interpellation” for poststructuralist reflexive practice, concerning as they do the unpredictable political and ontological effects of what one says and does.
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Qualitative InquiryISSN
1077-8004Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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5Volume
21Page range
436-444Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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2016-09-16First Open Access (FOA) Date
2016-09-16First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-09-16Usage metrics
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