The outsider advantage: Interviewing planners and other elites in the Polish-German borderland

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dc.author.affiliationATOhu
dc.author.mtmtid10045630
dc.contributor.authorBalogh, Péter
dc.coverage.mtmtmtmthu
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-14T07:52:30Z
dc.date.available2015-10-14T07:52:30Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractAs conducting interviews with elites is increasingly common, an important debate has emerged around the researcher’s positionality as an insider/outsider also in a geographic sense. Three standpoints can be distinguished. Initially, some emphasised the advantages of the insider in eliciting interesting and sometimes even sensitive information from informants. More recently, several scholars suggested that this position is never stable. Our experiences are however more in line with those who demonstrated the advantages of being an outsider. Coming from outside the study area may be particularly helpful when interviewing elites on sensitive issues such as contacts in a borderland with a troubled history, like between Poland and Germany. Our 38 interviews reveal three patterns. First, blaming the other side is not unusual on both sides of the border. Second, de-emphasising the importance of cooperation is more common on the Polish side, but also occurred on the German side. Finally, a discourse of re-establishing the historically coherent region is clearly present on the German side, but lacks almost entirely on the Polish side. It is doubtful whether we would have been able to elicit such attitudes from both studied groups had we belonged to either one of them.hu
dc.description.accessSzabadon elérhetőhu
dc.format.extentfirstpage101hu
dc.format.extentlastpage108hu
dc.format.extentvolume4hu
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Settlements and Spatial Planning 4:(1) pp. 101-108. (2013)hu
dc.identifier.mtmt-recordid2722803
dc.identifier.urihttp://geografie.ubbcluj.ro/ccau/jssp/arhiva_1_2013/12JSSP012013.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11155/976
dc.languageangolhu
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Settlements and Spatial Planninghu
dc.relation.ispartofjournalissue1hu
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dc.subjecthatármenti együttműködéshu
dc.subjecthatárkutatáshu
dc.subjecthatármenti térség - Németország - Lengyelországhu
dc.subjectoutsiderhu
dc.subjectelithu
dc.subjectinterjúhu
dc.titleThe outsider advantage: Interviewing planners and other elites in the Polish-German borderlanden
dc.typejournalArticleen
dc.type.descriptionfolyóiratcikkhu
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