SPRING SEMINAR
Wednesday 8th February
Angelo Benozzo - University of Valle d’Aosta and Huw Bell - MMU
Time: 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Location: Simon 0.03
Gay man seeks straight man for honest conversation about coming out at work: dyadic interpretation of interview data.
Abstract: We report an innovative collaborative partnership in which a gay man and a straight man evolve a new metanarrative from a serial discursive interpretation of data over time. The data is from interviews about the experience of gay men coming out at work and the gay/straight dialogue is informed by the participants’ respective positioning in the heteronormative and homonormative worlds. The collaboration shows how we construct a “reality” from often vague data, conjointly seek to give voice and meaning to the ‘other’ who is absent.