Baines Donna, Braedley Susan, Daly Tamara, Ågotnes Gudmund, Banerjee Albert, Chaccour Elias, Côté-Boucher Karine, Glasdam Stinne, Hillier Sean, MacDonald Martha, Jacobsen Frode Fadnes, Stilwell Christie
University of British Columbia, Canada.
Carleton University, Canada.
Qual Res. 2025 Jun;25(3):752-763. doi: 10.1177/14687941241264473. Epub 2024 Aug 7.
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers' bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal "research super-hero" norm operates within the research community, rooted in a conception of high productivity that mingles uneasily, for many researchers, with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial social justice aims and responsibilities. Our 2022 fieldwork experience led us to notice how this norm has circulated within our explicitly feminist research team and nudged us to challenge it, while raising questions about how a "research-worker" norm can best be supported.
自疫情以来，实地研究工作因政治经济的转变而发生了变化，这些转变影响着支撑研究的物质条件。在本研究报告中，一个研究团队思考了他们在完成2022年实地研究时所面临的挑战和收获，包括时间、资金、研究人员身体方面的压力加剧，以及与疾病和感染传播相关的风险。我们认为，新自由主义的“研究超级英雄”规范在研究界盛行，其根源在于对高生产力的一种观念，而对许多研究人员来说，这种观念与女权主义、反种族主义和反殖民社会正义的目标及责任难以协调。我们2022年的实地研究经历让我们注意到这种规范在我们明确的女权主义研究团队中是如何传播的，并促使我们对其提出挑战，同时也引发了关于如何最好地支持“研究工作者”规范的问题。
