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Beyond the boundaries of neatly presented ‘datasets’ are the words said before and after audio-recorders are switched on, small talk that is rarely transcribed or archived. In this intervention, I return to a brief moment preceding a semi-structured interview in North Norway. While I was there to study political relations in the Barents region, the research encounters generated interpersonal connections and surprises. This paper considers first, positionality and the blurriness of the researcher’s role as insider or outsider; and second, the nuances often left out of research accounts, such as local dialects, small talk, and the relational settings of interviews.
Author(s): Medby IA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Area
Year: 2023
Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Pages: 221-226
Print publication date: 01/06/2023
Online publication date: 23/11/2022
Acceptance date: 10/11/2022
Date deposited: 15/12/2022
ISSN (print): 0004-0894
ISSN (electronic): 1475-4762
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12857
DOI: 10.1111/area.12857
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