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Photo-elicitation, auto-photography & word sorts
Dr Asma Mustafa
Research Fellow on Muslims in Britain at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies &
Senior Tutor and Senior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University.
http://www.asmamustafa.com/https://oxford.academia.edu/AsmaMustafa
@DrAsmaMustafa
Identity and political participation among young British Muslims
(2015) Palgrave Macmillan
Faith and photography: Using auto‐photography in eliciting perceptions of
religious identity.’ (2014)
Fieldwork in Religion, 9, 2: 166‐181
Sample
• Ethnicity: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Arab, Mixed, English Converts
• Age Range: 16‐35
North: Manchester, Halifax, Leeds, Bradford, Burnley
Midlands: Birmingham, Leicester
South: London, Oxford
Photo‐elicitationPhoto elicitation has become a familiar, if
underutilized qualitative method. Simply described, in using this technique, rather than asking a subject, for example, ‘what is the role of the bicycle in Italian
culture?’ a researcher might present a set of images…to an Italian or a group of Italians to elicit their explanations. Of course, the response to the images could well vary according to whether the respondents participate in the pictured reality as bicyclists, scooter or car drivers, or pedestrians.
(Denzin and Lincoln, 2000: 725).
“short stories about hypothetical characters in specified circumstances, to whose situation the
interviewee is invited to respond” (Finch, 1987: 105).
Auto‐photography
Auto‐photography as a method, encouraged respondents to take photographs which they then used during the interview to explain and
explore their identity.
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• Ziller, R. 1990. Photographing the Self: Methods for Observing the Personal Orientations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
• Ziller, R. and D. Lewis 1981. “Orientations: self, social, and environmental perception through auto‐photography,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin7, 338–43.
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Who are you?
We want you to describe to yourself how you see yourself. To do this we would like you to take…12
photographs that tell who you are. These photographs can be of anything just as long as they tell something about who you are. You should not be interested in your skills as a photographer keep in
mind that the photographs should describe who you are as you see yourself. (Ziller, 1990: 34)
“It would be a grievous omission not to stress another advantage of auto‐photography: subject involvement…auto‐photography capitalizes on
the inherent interest in photographic communication. Subject cooperation is high, and
there is a general atmosphere of sincerity, perhaps because a photograph is not perceived as a throw‐away response, but as a response
made in full view of the self” (Ziller, 1990: 36).
Auto-Photography
Method: Word Sorts/Word Boxes LANGUAGE SECULAR BOOKS HISTORY ETHNICITY SKIN EYES FOOD MUSIC CLOTHING RELIGION FACE PRAYER COUNTRY CONSERVATIVE HAIR BRITAIN FOREINGER FLAG MODERATE JEWELERY DIALECT AGE NOSE VALUES DUAL
NATIONALITYGENDER ATHEIST