Here is her written introduction Antjie Krog's article in the Denzin and Lincoln Handbook of Qualitative Research:
Qualitative Research Methods
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Nancy Nickerson
Antjie Krog
is a South African poet and a contributing author in Denzin and Lincoln’s The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Penning the chapter “In
the Name of Human Rights, she defends the voice of the oppressed constituencies,
necessitating their being heard
according to their own genres and terms. The researcher must adapt to the
footprints of the people, merging the knowledge with the subjectivity of human
relationships and social structures so that we can all hear their voices.
The
discourse between academic researchers and indigenous peoples must be
respectful of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the
United Nations. Specifically,
Everyone
has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this right includes freedom
to hold opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers( www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/)
Krog cites
three examples of researchers working in countries with divided histories and
cultures. She describes a bushman shaman narrating a story to a philogoist in
Xam. Because the researcher did not live with the people he was studying, he
missed the bushman’s intricate decoding and contextual signs and symbols used.
A second example cited a professor with proliferic writing during an academic
year but with none of them peer reviewed. Crucial observations need a theory and
valuable experience needed a discipline. The last example involved a professor
who had had a paper rejected despite peer reviews. He had not found a link in
theory that connected his knowledge with the literature. All three examples
spoke of the need of the deep and resounding spoken work within the sentences
of the academic discourse. It is only when the writer speaks from within and
out of the world he knows intimately that the real voices are heard.
Krog, A. (2011). In the Name of Human Rights. In N. K.
Lincoln, The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (pp. 381-385).
Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Inc.
Based on this description you can see why, NOTHING but a poem would do to share Nickerson's conceptualization of the reading experience.
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