Reflecting on the reflectivist approach to qualitative interviewing
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2019
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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This study aims to reflect on qualitative interviewing with a particular emphasis on semi-structured interviewing (SSI), with the purpose of guiding students and young scholars of International Relations and Political Science who will use this method in their research. This study begs to differ from both radical postpositivist’s deep scepticism which makes any scientific inquiry almost impossible as well as from positivism’s unreflective, unproblematized, instrumental approach to interviewing. It proposes a reflectivist approach to qualitative interviewing that emphasizes the political nature of the interviewing process with various political, ethical and even social consequences. The reflectivist approach requires researchers to be self-critical at all times, in particular concerning their role and influence on the interview setting and the interviewee. This article proceeds as follows: It first addresses my own research on the nexus between civil society and the Kurdish question in Turkey, where SSI has been operationalized as the main research method. It then addresses the positivist and post-positivist debates on qualitative interviewing as well as the reflectivist approach that this study promotes. The article then engages in SSI in three distinct stages: pre-interview, interview and post-interview phases. Finally, the concluding part introduces some works utilising interviewing in Turkish IR and wraps up the theoretical/ methodological arguments disseminated throughout the study at hand.
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Uluslararası İlişkiler, Siyasi Bilimler, Semi-Structured Interviewing, Qualitative Interviewing, Reflexive Approach To Qualitative Interviewing, Qualitative Research
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All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
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Q2
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8
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2
Künye
Kaliber, A. (2019). Reflecting on the reflectivist approach to qualitative interviewing. All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, 8(2), 339-357.
