Sensitive Research: Positionality and Reflexivity In Fragile and Violence-Affected Contexts

RC42 session · XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gwangju 2027

This panel explores how researchers’ positionality and reflexivity function within fieldwork conducted in violence-affected environments. The session examines qualitative re-approaches that address human rights violations and examines how researcher positioning influences research design, methodology, and interpretation. The discussion integrates intersectional frameworks with emotion-based analysis to advance understanding of situated knowledge and epistemological reflexivity as methodological concerns.

Organizer(s)/Chair(s):

• Sandra Rios Oyola, University of Louvain, Belgium

Host committee(s): RC42 Social Psychology; TG02 Conflict Transformations and Peacebuilding

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