Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?

Kulpa, Roberto

Abstract

Friendship gained across years some traction in kinship research, recently especially within the ‘queer kinship’ debates, as a strong manifestation for the need and drive of alternative ‘families of choice’. With this presentation I want to focus on a methodology in researching friendships, especially researcher’s own networks of friendships.
I start with the auto-ethnographic and biographical insights to offer a number of hypothetical vignettes as a debate stimulus. I hope to explore a number of real and imaginary stories of researching friends, researching with friends, researching friendship – to consider how the researcher may navigate the research process that involves their own friendships.

Citation

Kulpa, R. (2022, June). Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?. Paper presented at 11th European Feminist Research Conference: "Social Change in a Feminist Perspective", Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, IT

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 11th European Feminist Research Conference: "Social Change in a Feminist Perspective"
• Conference Location: Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, IT
• Start Date: Jun 15, 2022
• End Date: Jun 18, 2022
• Publication Date: Jun 15, 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 16, 2022
• Keywords: friendship, (auto-)methodology, queer-feminist epistemology, friendship research, personal as political/social, psychosocial studies
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2984280
• Publisher URL: https://11efrc.unimib.it/