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Making meaning of meaning-making: a case study of feminist research methodology in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Wickremasinghe, Maithree
dc.date.accessioned 2015-09-28T04:46:45Z
dc.date.available 2015-09-28T04:46:45Z
dc.date.issued 2007
dc.identifier.citation Wickramesinghe, Maithree 2007. Making meaning of meaning-making: a case study of feminist research methodology in Sri Lanka. PhD thesis, Institute of Education, University of London. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/9774
dc.description.abstract While women-related (WR) research has proliferated in Sri Lanka since 1975, research focusing on such literature and on research methodology is limited. My research concentrates on the theoretical frameworks, ontological and epistemological standpoints, methods, politics and ethics that constitute WR research methodology in Sri Lanka. In effect, it considers the ways in which researchers extract I construct meanings to fulfil feminist objectives in research. Consequently, the work covers the epistemological gap in methodology within local Women's Studies; and enriches international research by highlighting the Sri Lankan situation through being generalisable to wider theoretical objectives. Women-relatedness of research is posited as a paradigmatic shift in knowledge-making within which research activism takes place. The umbrella concept and materiality of WR research methodology is case studied through constituent case studies of method, ontology, epistemology, theory, and politics I ethics. This involves conceptualising I engaging with the particularities of Sri Lankan ontological politics; an epistemology of gender that originates from a sense of being I doing; the method of literature reviewing as an epistemic project; theory on methodology as epistemology and feminisms as a form of ethical politics. Maithree Wickramasinghe- Making Meaning of Meaning-Making 2 Sri Lankan women's studies and discourse compose a somewhat abstract ontology for my research purpose, while WR research methodology is captured I constructed in research through the examination of research texts and interviews. My own methodology is founded on the principle of knowledge as a process of both discovery and construction. Analysis of research is from multiple theoretical locations and methodological intersects of positivism and postrnodernism; as well as feminist standpoints, postcolonialism, and reflexivity. The ultimate aim of the study is not only conceptual unity, but also, conceptual contestation. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Institute of Education, University of London en_US
dc.title Making meaning of meaning-making: a case study of feminist research methodology in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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