Maha Bali مها باليWhat's the key difference betw navel-gazing and introspection or self-reflection? Cc @katebowles @cogdog @lauraritchie @clhendricksbc @fgraver @friedelitis
rob@mahabali @katebowles @cogdog @lauraritchie @clhendricksbc @fgraver @friedelitis navel gazing never progresses.
Alan Levine@robparsons @friedelitis @katebowles @mahabali @lauraritchie @fgraver @clhendricksbc
Navel gazing is the only way to find out if you have trapped lint there (someone has to take the other side).
Laura Ritchie 🌸@cogdog @friedelitis @katebowles @mahabali @fgraver @clhendricksbc @robparsons haha ;) I had psychology person (Liora Bressler) say to me once that all research is also 'me-search'. Also has to do with going from the known to the unknown - can't really jump without connection, so for me self- or any other sort of reflection is central to everything - whether listening, writing, watching...
Kate@lauraritchie @cogdog @friedelitis @mahabali @fgraver @clhendricksbc @robparsons Indigenous researchers emphasise that practice is always relational: who am I, that I am not you? How are we connected? How did we each come to this point, through lines of kin and relationships to place?
For non-Indigenous researchers this is a reminder that we each came to this point where the world looks obvious to us, and that's how our lenses were shaped.
Reflexivity is core to this.
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So for me there's a colonialist logic to the dismissal of reflection as navel gazing. Reflection on self and practice can't detour around questions of power, and these are awkward questions for power itself.
So there's an effort to trivialise and dismiss reflection, that's worth keeping an eye on.
Hope this helps, Maha. Why did you ask?
Professorsv@katebowles @friedelitis @mahabali @cogdog @lauraritchie @fgraver @clhendricksbc @robparsons This is an interesting point. There is fully a negative connotation to navel-gazing; it is a kin to wasting time, being unproductive. It can be used to shame someone or undermine--as @katebowles says, to trivialize and dismiss reflection. Why did you ask @mahabali?
I cannot remember now why I asked re navel-gazing but I do think what you both said re negative connotation and colonialist assumptions are what I was trying to get at
And that positionality of researcher and her self-reflection are essential to any research also... But that I felt the term navel-gazing was more of an attempt to dismiss self-reflective/reflexive research as less valuable...
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