Graduate Journal of Social Science

Articles

• ‘We do General Policing’: Sexuality in the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit of the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC

  Aaron Tobler

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  • pp. 1–22

• Considering Performance

  Jade Boyd

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    This paper examines some of the ways in which performativity is being mediated. It locates this discussion within the spheres of performance theory (emphasizing Judith Butler’s contributions) and postcolonial discourse to investigate how the performance of hybrid identities is being theorized. As means of an example the cultural practice of the carnival, as is discussed in Awam Amkpa’s “Floating Signification: Carnivals and the Transgressive Performance of Hybridity” and Barbara Browning’s “The Daughters of Gandhi: Africanness, Indianness, and Brazilianness in the Bahian Carnival” in May Joseph and Jennifer Natalya Fink’s (1999) book Performing Hybridity is discussed. In conclusion, Susan Foster’s argument to include body movement and choreography into theorizations of performativity is put forward as a more integrative approach to the study of hybrid performances.

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  • pp. 23–42

• Battlegrounds of Marriage: Conflict Experiences of Filipino Wives in Intercultural Marriages

  Melvin A. Jabar

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    Intercultural marriage as a subject of research remains unpopular despite its rich history. With this scarcity of literature base, most studies regarding the topic described the general aspects of marriage while specific issues of it such as marital conflict leave much to be investigated. Such research gaps warrant the writing of this report.
    This report aimed to describe the conflict experiences of Filipino wives in intercultural marriages. Specifically, this report looked into the sources, experiences, and typologies of conflict as perceived and experienced by 15 Filipino wives in intercultural marriages.

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  • pp. 43–57

• The Highs and Lows of using Case Studies in Student Research Projects: practical problems versus dynamite data

  Kim McKee

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    The case study is a key tool for qualitative researchers, facilitating the in depth exploration and understanding of participants’ views, experiences and perspectives. It can provide rich contextual detail, generate bottom up in vivo concepts, and help unravel the layers of complexity that can obscure research questions. A cheap and manageable option especially for student researchers, case study research is not however problem free. It is a time consuming approach, which relies on good relations between the researcher and their participants, an organised approach to time and work management, and a persistent approach to securing access to potential cases. Above all, the onus is on the researcher to provide a transparent and reflexive account of their methodological approach so that the reader might be convinced of their arguments.
    Based on the author’s personal experience of case study research via current doctoral research on the Glasgow housing stock transfer, this paper aims to discuss and illustrate both the merits of adopting a case study approach and also the potential practical problems and difficulties that may be encountered.

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  • pp. 58–80

• Documentary analysis of the press: Problems of Involvement and Detachment for inexperienced researchers

  Christopher King

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  • pp. 81–87

Book Reviews

• Europe as Empire: the nature of the enlarged European Union by Jan Zielonka

  Sara Wolff

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  • pp. 88–92