Leveraging Critical Methodologies to Unpack the Gendered and Racialized Nature of Nonprofit Spaces
Location
DeSantis Room 1048
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
17-1-2020 9:15 AM
End Date
17-1-2020 9:35 AM
Abstract
This paper examines the utility of deploying a critical methodology framework grounded in critical race, as well as critical intersectional, and feminist standpoint theories for nonprofit and voluntary studies. At present, nonprofit scholarship produces what critical race theorists refer to as a “majoritarian” narrative (Solorzano & Yosso, 2002) – that is, scholarship that is depoliticized, and aligned with dominant research methodologies that determines what counts as legitimate research. In this paper we develop and apply a framework that integrates critical race theory [CRT], critical intersectionality [CI] and feminist standpoint methodology to recenter the narrative and lived experience of minority or marginalized scholars in an effort to both unpack the gendered and racialized nature of nonprofit spaces, as well as democratize research practice.
We argue that these theoretical perspectives, which emphasize lived experience and sense-making, offer a useful analytic lens for centering the narratives and experiences of marginalized scholars, in an attempt to examine the gendered and racialized nature of nonprofit spaces. The authors explicate the framework and discuss its utility, drawing on their experiences conducting research in the nonprofit sectors in Flint, MI and Camden, NJ. Implications for research and praxis are discussed.
Keywords
critical race, critical intersectional, feminist standpoint, nonprofit management
Leveraging Critical Methodologies to Unpack the Gendered and Racialized Nature of Nonprofit Spaces
DeSantis Room 1048
This paper examines the utility of deploying a critical methodology framework grounded in critical race, as well as critical intersectional, and feminist standpoint theories for nonprofit and voluntary studies. At present, nonprofit scholarship produces what critical race theorists refer to as a “majoritarian” narrative (Solorzano & Yosso, 2002) – that is, scholarship that is depoliticized, and aligned with dominant research methodologies that determines what counts as legitimate research. In this paper we develop and apply a framework that integrates critical race theory [CRT], critical intersectionality [CI] and feminist standpoint methodology to recenter the narrative and lived experience of minority or marginalized scholars in an effort to both unpack the gendered and racialized nature of nonprofit spaces, as well as democratize research practice.
We argue that these theoretical perspectives, which emphasize lived experience and sense-making, offer a useful analytic lens for centering the narratives and experiences of marginalized scholars, in an attempt to examine the gendered and racialized nature of nonprofit spaces. The authors explicate the framework and discuss its utility, drawing on their experiences conducting research in the nonprofit sectors in Flint, MI and Camden, NJ. Implications for research and praxis are discussed.