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APLNG Roundtable

APLNG Roundtable. Analyzing Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge Esther Prins Adult Education Program. Deciding what and how to analyze. Watched and listened to video Read transcript Struck by narrator’s description of mother’s actions

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APLNG Roundtable

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  1. APLNG Roundtable Analyzing Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge Esther Prins Adult Education Program

  2. Deciding what and how to analyze • Watched and listened to video • Read transcript • Struck by narrator’s description of mother’s actions • Decided to use Ahearn’s (2001) definition of agency • “Culturally constrained capacity to act” • Reviewed Ahearn’s analysis of letter • Use of “sensitizing concepts” (Blumer, 1969)

  3. Analytical Procedures • Highlighted instances of: • External forces acting upon narrator, family (subject, verb) • Actions taken by narrator, family (subject, verb) • Resources for agency: who or what created opportunity to act or enhanced ability to act • Operationalized codes (iterative) • Added 4th code: obstacles to achieving desired result

  4. Analytical Procedures • Added 5th code to reflect outcomes of actions • Mother’s actions  • She passed test • Family moved to Vietnam • Speaker is “here today” (and narrative therefore exists) • Mother is present at TED talk • Speaker’s actions  • Tribunal accepted complaint registering father’s death • Theoretical significance: Agentic acts don’t necessarily achieve desired result (Ahearn, Lareau)

  5. What was done to narrator, parents, family by others • Agency: narrator, parents, family take action • Resources for agency (what created opportunity or enhanced ability to act) • Constraints & obstacles (factors that undermined likelihood of achieving desired result) • Outcome of agency

  6. Analytical Procedures • Transferred text and analysis to NVivo • The paths not taken • Characterization of the Khmer Rouge • Description of place (Cambodia and Vietnam): pretty, idyllic, fear, freedom, lawless

  7. References • Ahearn, L. (2001). Invitations to love: Literacy, love letters, and social change in Nepal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. • Ahearn, L. (2001). Language and agency. Annual Review of Anthropology, 30, 109–37. • Blumer, H. (1969) Symbolic interactionism: Perspective and method. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. • Lareau, A. (2003). Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. • Lareau, A., & Horvat, E. M. (1999). Moments of social inclusion and exclusion: Race, class, and cultural capital in family-school relationships. Sociology of Education, 72(1), 37-53.

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