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Title: Positionality in an Ethnically Diverse Qatar
Language: English
Authors: Katarzyna Wodniak (ORCID 0000-0001-6759-1413), Waleed Serhan (ORCID 0000-0002-5993-7071)
Source: Field Methods. 2026 38(1):3-18.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Power Structure, Evaluation Methods, Museums, Ethnic Diversity, Ethnic Groups, Arabs, Context Effect, Participant Characteristics, Researchers, Experimenter Characteristics
Geographic Terms: Qatar
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X251315045
ISSN: 1525-822X
1552-3969
Abstract: This article examines how positionality and various researcher--respondent combinations enhance our ability to gain holistic representations of the ethnically diverse Qatari society. While there has been a substantial growth in the use of qualitative research methods in the Arab World since the 1990s, methodological analyses of this qualitative shift remain scarce. Our two years of extensive research on the National Museum of Qatar involving 135 semi-structured interviews and six focus groups conducted by a diverse research team with a diverse population enabled us to identify practical guidance on the employment of qualitative research methods in Qatar, and by extension to the socially, culturally, and politically similar wider Arab Gulf region.
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