Positionality
Reflecting on your positionality is a vital part in writing about where you are from and where you are. It's important, too, to take stock of the areas where you experience privilege and marginality and how you will use that in the future (where we are going).
Use this Social Identity Worksheet to help you explore your positionality.
For more background information about social identity and oppression visit https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/social-identities-and-systems-oppression
You might also consider these questions posed by the Weingarten Blog in your reflection https://weingartenlrc.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/research-writing-whats-your-positionality/
How do my personal, professional and/or intellectual positionalities (identities, contexts, experiences, and perspectives) cohere with or diverge from my research inquiries?
What legacies (personal, communal, societal, national, transnational and/or global) inform the social constructedness of my positionality?
In what ways, or not, am I conscientiously, or not, reifying, resisting, disrupting, and/or changing the constructs of my positionality through this research process?
How has my own positionality changed, or not, over time, and why? In what ways has it remained static, and why? In what ways has it been dynamic, fluid, emerging and/or generative, and why?
How does my positionality recognize, honor, and/or problematize intersectional notions of difference (politics, economic class, race, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, legality, age, ability, education, sexuality, gender, and/or religion?) as a conceptual praxis of analysis for my research context?
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