Negotiating Multiple Positionalities in the Interview Setting: Researching Across Gender and Generational Boundaries

摘要: This article explores the multiple positionalities that were negotiated during qualitative interviews conducted with older British men who are grandfathers, by a young female early career researcher. Gender and other methodological challenges researchers of masculinities have been critiqued, but negotiations age generational differences in field remain scant, despite recognition also structures socially constructed spatially experienced identities. Including reflections on personal research experiences, outlines need for explicit critical attention geographers to influence fluid intersectional identities researcher researched experiences outcomes.