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La práctica reflexiva en el texto etnográfico: aproximaciones, relaciones y significados sobre el uso de heroína y otras drogas en una comunidad urbana

In this article I will illustrate the process of engaging in reflexive action research, to question the role of the researcher during data collection, data analysis, and in preparing a research article. I address reflexivity by way of an ethnographic study of drug use that was carried out in Barcelo...

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Published in:Forum, qualitative social research qualitative social research, 2009
Main Author: Albertín Carbó, Pilar
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Language:Spanish
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Summary:In this article I will illustrate the process of engaging in reflexive action research, to question the role of the researcher during data collection, data analysis, and in preparing a research article. I address reflexivity by way of an ethnographic study of drug use that was carried out in Barcelona, Spain, from 1994 to 1996. The socioconstructionist perspective that guides my work departs from two premises: 1) the researcher's approach to and relation with informants, as well as the emergent meanings that arise from this interaction constitute key elements of ethnographic reflexive practice (HAMMERSLEY & ATKINSON, 1995); 2) language is performative, which is to say that it has the capacity to produce action (AUSTIN, 1962) and, therefore, effects the construction of reality. It follows that the author of a text is implicated and takes on a commitment insofar as she or he is an agent situated between informants and readers. The positionality of the author gives rise to the need to experiment with a reflexive practice that can take into account ethical and epistemological criteria that will in turn affect the formation of any corresponding "academic" or "scientific" knowledge. The results of my investigations suggests four basic, interrelated dimensions that obtain with regard to demonstrating reflexive practice and the researcher's action: 1) micro-contextual descriptions, 2) dialogism (BAKHTIN, 1984), 3) the emergence of subjectivities, the researcher's positions, and possibilities for transformation, and 4) the rhetoric of the text En este artículo mostraré el proceso de realizar una investigación acción para cuestiona el papel del investigador durante la recolección y análisis de datos y al preparar el informe final. He trabajado la reflexividad a partir de un estudio etnográfico sobre el consumo de drogas realizado durante 19941996 en Barcelona (España). La perspectiva construccionista que guía mi trabajo parte de dos premisas: a) el enfoque del investigador hacia y la relación con los informantes, así como los significados que surgen desde esta interacción constituyen los elementos claves de la práctica etnográfica reflexiva (HAMMERSLEY & ATKINSON 1995); b) el lenguaje es performativo, es decir, tiene la capacidad de producir acción (AUSTIN 1962) y por tanto, tiene efectos en la construcción de la realidad . De esta manera la investigación usa el lenguaje para construir conocimiento que afecta la realidad. De lo cual se sigue que el autor del texto e
ISSN:1438-5627
1438-5627