Challenges and opportunities faced by an insider researcher in Malaysian ethnicity studies : a literature review
Ethnicity in most social contexts is largely treated as a simple and reified concept especially by insider researchers in post-colonial countries. In certain cases, some of these insider researchers have a perception that being part of an ethnic group would primordially equip them with prior kno...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20826/1/28040-85379-1-SM.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20826/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/ebangi/issue/view/1122 |
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| Summary: | Ethnicity in most social contexts is largely treated as a simple and reified concept especially by insider
researchers in post-colonial countries. In certain cases, some of these insider researchers have a
perception that being part of an ethnic group would primordially equip them with prior knowledge about
their group, hence neglecting the complexity of the ethnicity itself. The outcomes would be problematic
for the development of ethnicity studies: theoretically and methodologically. The main objective of this
article is to discuss methodological (epistemological and ontological) challenges faced by insider
researchers in Malaysian ethnicity studies. Using the Extended Case Method (ECM), I reflect on how I
engaged methodologically as an insider researcher in understanding ethnicity. The discourse is intended
to assist insider researchers in justifying their methodological perspective in ethnicity studies without
neglecting their identity and position. |
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