Where Am I in the Picture?: Researcher Positionality in Rural Studies

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

1. Where Am I in the Picture? An Introduction
Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, and Katarina Giritli Nygren

Section One: Rural Travelscapes

2. Travelling in Circles along Roads Less Travelled in Awe of Open Spaces
Lisa Starr and Claudia Mitchell

3. Saskatchewan Song Cycle: Trans Readings of a Land Survey in the Canadian West
Lou Sheppard

4. Taking to the Woods: Towards Decentralized Research in Protest Movements
Angelika Sjöstedt

5. Picturing Transrurality: Connecting Rural People and Places across Borders
April Mandrona

Section Two: Girlhoods and Rurality as Context

6. Picturing Rurality: Towards a Shared Understanding of What It Means to Study Rurality in Two Country Contexts
Katja Gillander Gådin and Naydene de Lange

7. Drawing Myself into the Picture: What Does It Mean to Be a Rural-Origin Student in an Urban University?
Samukelisiwe Khumalo

8. “Beyond Getting Something”: Reflections on Researching the Closure of a Rural Municipality’s Maternity Ward
Emelie Larsson

9. A Button Thief or a Researcher? Entangled Selves, Positionality, and Knowledge Production
Sara Nyhlén

Section Three: Positionality and the Rural

10. “Hey, Mlungu!”: Positionality in Participatory Visual Research in Post-apartheid South Africa
Lisa Wiebesiek and Astrid Treffry-Goatley

11. Acting like a Skank: Reflections on a Researcher’s Involvement in the Production of Participatory Visual Research Texts in a Rural Area
Katie MacEntee

12. Positioning Girls in Rural Contexts: Then and Now
Ntomboxolo Yamile

13. Positionality at the Centre: Constructing an Epistemological and Methodological Approach for a Western Feminist Doctoral Candidate Conducting Research in the Postcolonial
Catherine Vanner

14. Going the Distance: Theorizing Forward in the Time of a “Rural Turn”
Claudia Mitchell, Katarina Giritli Nygren, and Relebohile Moletsane

Contributors
Index