ABSTRACT

This article explores methodological challenges in studying intimacies through analysing affective assemblages in research interviews. The participants in this study are forced migrants trying to reunite with their transnational families. Building on scholarship where affect is considered precognitive, meaning that it happens prior to emotions, this article approaches affective knowledge through methodological exploration. The analysis explores two research encounters from a data set which include interviews with 55 forced migrants in Finland, some of which were done together with a research assistant working as a translator. In addition, data include the researcher’s notes on re-listening to six interviews. The research question is how affect influences research interview situations and what effects these affective assemblages have on all involved. Additionally, the interest is in what these assemblages reveal about empathy and difference. The results show that intimate relations may manifest through a shared, intense affective assemblage where the borders of the researcher and participant become blurred. Difficult experiences of losses and injustices in the realm of intimacies may also cause affective dissonance. In these research encounters, difference between the researcher(s) and the participant(s) is left unsolved. The unresolved difference may reveal power relations between the researcher and participant.

摘要

本文通过分析研究访谈中的情感组合，探讨研究亲密关系的方法论挑战。本研究的参与者是试图与跨国家庭团聚的被迫移民。建立在情感被认为是预知的学术基础上，这意味着它发生在情感之前，本文通过方法论探索来处理情感知识。该分析从一个数据集中探索了两次研究遭遇，其中包括对芬兰 55 名被迫移民的采访，其中一些是与担任翻译的研究助理一起完成的。此外，数据还包括研究人员关于重听六次访谈的笔记。研究问题是情感如何影响研究访谈情况以及这些情感组合对所有相关人员有什么影响。此外，兴趣在于这些组合揭示了关于同理心和差异的内容。结果表明，亲密关系可能通过共享的、强烈的情感组合表现出来，在这种组合中，研究人员和参与者的边界变得模糊。在亲密关系中遭受损失和不公正的艰难经历也可能导致情感失调。在这些研究遭遇中，研究人员和参与者之间的差异没有得到解决。未解决的差异可能会揭示研究人员和参与者之间的权力关系。结果表明，亲密关系可能通过共享的、强烈的情感组合表现出来，在这种组合中，研究人员和参与者的边界变得模糊。在亲密关系中遭受损失和不公正的艰难经历也可能导致情感失调。在这些研究遭遇中，研究人员和参与者之间的差异没有得到解决。未解决的差异可能会揭示研究人员和参与者之间的权力关系。结果表明，亲密关系可能通过共享的、强烈的情感组合表现出来，在这种组合中，研究人员和参与者的边界变得模糊。在亲密关系中遭受损失和不公正的艰难经历也可能导致情感失调。在这些研究遭遇中，研究人员和参与者之间的差异没有得到解决。未解决的差异可能会揭示研究人员和参与者之间的权力关系。