@article{Lapum_2008, title={The Performative Manifestation of a Research Identity: Storying the Journey Through Poetry}, volume={9}, url={https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/397}, DOI={10.17169/fqs-9.2.397}, abstractNote={Cultivating a research identity is an arduous journey. We are told to situate ourselves—know where we are coming from—but it is rare that people share their experiences and provide insight into a journey that indubitably shapes your research. In this performative piece, I shed light on my journey to a research identity. I provide an intimate portrayal of the blurring and temporal nature of research identities that is sometimes avoided and often unaccepted. In doing so, I hope to awaken new understandings and provide insight into what can be a direction(less) journey that leads to a sense of positioning. My journey is a tracing rendered through poetry-enhanced prose, which provides aesthetic sensibilities and the possibility for you to enter into and become caught up in our experience. As well, poetry and photography are bestowed in a way to illuminate the performative and dynamic place of my research identity and as a way to visualize and feel the story within this poetical telling. This is a manifestation of performative social science in which the voice is never solely mine and the identity is never conclusive as it continues to unfold and shift through the spaces I inhabit. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802392}, number={2}, journal={Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research}, author={Lapum, Jennifer}, year={2008}, month={May} }