Cecilie Basberg Neumann & Iver B. Neumann 
Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology 
Autobiography, Field, Text

This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research.

Table of Content

1. Introduction .- 2. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness, in-field situatedness, post-field text situatedness .- 3. A century of thinking about situatedness: The Gestalt tradition .- 4. Conceptual inspiration from the Gestalt tradition .- 5. Interview techniques .- 6. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness and post-field textual situatedness .- 7. Philosophy of science: two ways of going about situatedness .- 8. Conclusion: Culture, power, ethics.

About the author

Cecilie Basberg Neumann is Associate Professor in Sociology at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. She is also a Gestalt therapist from the Norwegian Gestalt Institute in Oslo.






Iver B. Neumann is Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the author (with Kevin Dunn) of
Discourse Analysis for Social Research.