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This chapter theorises the role of the researcher in relation to how the participants affectively position the researcher. A cultural-historical approach is used in investigating how emotions and affect are part of the everyday life of the researcher and her participants. The different zones of sense are explained on how the researcher senses the role that the participants place on her. The methodological tool of ‘Visual Vivencias’ is used on how through visual mobile images intense emotions can be captured visually. The research took place in a rural community in Mexico. Three examples are presented to understand the researcher as a teacher, a friend and a participant of an intense moment – a perezhivanie in the everyday life of Mayra. The researcher is affectively positioned, and this is discussed through dialogues and visual images. The researcher took a visual and affective and tactile pact through sensing what the participants’ intentions were. The affective positioning of the researcher allowed to have trustful relationships with participants and touched the life of the researcher. Taking upon these roles allowed her to establish a new relationship in the field and a more authentic experience in which it was recognised that not only her participants have intense emotions but she also has them.
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I would like to thank Prof. Barbara Kramler and authors of this book for their discussions and contribution to this chapter. I extend my gratitude to Prof. Marilyn Fleer and Dr. Avis Ridgway for their comments to this chapter and shared experiences in the field. Muchas gracias to my participants, Mayra and family, for welcoming me to their everyday life and for letting me be a friend, a teacher and a researcher.
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Quiñones, G. (2014). A Visual and Tactile Path: Affective Positioning of Researcher Using a Cultural-Historical Visual Methodology. In: Fleer, M., Ridgway, A. (eds) Visual Methodologies and Digital Tools for Researching with Young Children. International perspectives on early childhood education and development, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01469-2_7
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