Drawing Together Thinking Apart

Patel, Divya; McCarthy, Lauren

Abstract

Visual participatory research (VPR) methods can be used to illustrate organisational and social phenomena from different viewpoints. Reflecting on a case study into corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Gujarat, India, we show how women and men’s experiences of CSR, their meaning-making and relationships within patriarchal, caste-based systems can be surfaced through freehand, participant-led drawing. Drawing, alongside verbal reflection, can play an important role in beginning the challenging, yet ethically imperative process of empowering research. Yet these processes are complicated by our own standpoints as researchers, as cultural ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’, and by ‘being’ women in the data generation process.

Citation

Patel, D., & McCarthy, L. (2022). Drawing Together Thinking Apart. In Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429352492

• Online Publication Date: Jan 3, 2022
• Publication Date: Jan 3, 2022
• Deposit Date: Sep 11, 2023
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Book Title: Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research
• Chapter Number: 7
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429352492