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DESCRIPTION:Hermeneutic and interpretative qualitative research methodologi
 es have become well-established across the social sciences. These approach
 es provide sophisticated ways for understanding lived experience\, meaning
 - and sense-making within the context of human interpretation. Drawing fro
 m phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions associated with Heidegger\, 
 Gadamer and Ricoeur\, methodologies such as hermeneutic phenomenology and 
 interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) understand that experience 
 cannot be accessed without interpretation. Further\, these methodologies r
 ecognise that researchers inescapably encounter participants’ accounts o
 f their experience through contextually situated horizons of understanding
 .  Substantive traditions of hermeneutic phenomenology and critical hermen
 eutics exist\, along with a more recent and still-developing field of crit
 ical phenomenology.  Yet\, the interpretative quality of these methodologi
 es raises an important question: to what extent should interpretation seek
  to understand participant meanings of their life-worlds on their own term
 s\, and to what extent should it critically investigate the social\, cultu
 ral and political conditions which create those meanings or even their pla
 usibility?  Substantive traditions of hermeneutic phenomenology and critic
 al hermeneutics exist\, along with a more recent and still-developing fiel
 d of critical phenomenology. Yet\, comparatively\, less attention has been
  focused on explicitly integrating critical and hermeneutic modes of inter
 pretation within phenomenological qualitative methodology. This presentati
 on argues for a more explicitly critical approach to hermeneutic and inter
 pretative research in the social sciences by examining the literature on c
 ritical hermeneutics and critical phenomenology. We explore two specific a
 pplications\, IPA and hermeneutic phenomenology\, where we use both the he
 rmeneutics of empathy and the hermeneutics of suspicion\, but place emphas
 is on the latter. Rather than proposing a replacement methodology\, we arg
 ue that a critical approach to interpretative and hermeneutic applications
  of phenomenology provides an underutilised resource to examining the cond
 itions through which meanings and experiences are constituted. We offer a 
 framework for retaining the empathic and experiential commitments of inter
 pretative and hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry while strengthening its
  capacity for reflexive relational and social critique.
DTSTAMP:20261013T070101Z
LOCATION:Holme Room
SUMMARY:Developing Critical Approaches to Hermeneutic and Interpretative Ph
 enomenological Research - Robbie Busch
URL:https://conferences.acspri.org.au/2026/talk/E7DSYD/
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