July 31, 2020 Qualitative Sociology Review Volume XVI Issue 3 Creating, Negotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in Everyday Life by Dawne Clarke Available Online www.qualitativesociologyreview.org Qualitative Qualitative Sociology QSR Review Sociology ©2020 QSR • ISSN: 1733-8077 Review EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Krzysztof T. Konecki, University of Lodz EXECUTIVE EDITORS Volume XVI Łukasz T. Marciniak, University of Lodz Magdalena Wojciechowska, Issue 3 University of Lodz ASSOCIATE EDITORS Leon Anderson, Utah State University Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, Creating, Negotiating, University of Lodz Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz and Transcending Social Boundaries in Thaddeus Müller, Lancaster University Everyday Life Robert Prus, University of Waterloo APPROVING EDITORS Steven Kleinknecht, Brescia University College edited by Geraldine Leydon, Southampton University Antony J. Puddephatt, Lakehead University Dawne Clarke BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, University of Lodz EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Anna Kubczak, University of Lodz ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR Edyta Mianowska, Zielona Gora University LINGUISTIC EDITOR Jonathan Lilly STATISTICAL EDITOR Piotr Chomczyński, University of Lodz MANAGING EDITOR, DTP Magdalena Chudzik-Duczmańska COVER DESIGNER Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz Note QSR Editorial Office The journal and all published articles are a contribution to the contemporary University of Lodz social sciences. They are available without special permission to everyone who would like to use them for non-commercial, scientific, educational, or Faculty of Economics and Sociology other cognitive purposes. Making use of resources included in this journal Institute of Sociology for commercial or marketing aims requires a special permission from publi- The Sociology of Organization sher. 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Puddephatt Nicolette Bramley Steven Kleinknecht Anne Warfield Rawls Attila Bruni Hubert Knoblauch Johanna Rendle-Short Marie Buscatto Joseph A. Kotarba Brian Roberts Tanya Cassidy Ireneusz Krzemiński Roberto Rodríguez-Gomez Kathy Charmaz Margarethe Kusenbach Bernt Schnettler Catherine A. Chesla Riitta Kyllonen William Shaffir Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla Staffan Larsson Phyllis N. Stern Adele E. Clarke Geraldine Leydon Antonio Strati Jan K. Coetzee Lyn H. Lofland Joerg Struebing Juliet Corbin Jordi Lopez Sintas Andrzej Szklarski Michael Dellwing Michael Lynch Massimiliano Tarozzi Norman K. Denzin Christoph Maeder Roland Terborg Robert Dingwall Barbara Misztal Victor Thiessen Agata Dziuban Setsuo Mizuno Jan Trost Rosalind Edwards Lorenza Mondada Jonathan H. Turner Peter Eglin Janusz Mucha Dennis D. Waskul Gary Alan Fine Elena Neiterman Shalva Weil Silvia Gherardi Peter Nugus Fred Wester Barney Glaser Tony O’Connor Ingrid Westlund Giampietro Gobo Sandi Michele de Oliveira Patrick Williams Jaber F. Gubrium Dorothy Pawluch Ruth Wodak Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson Eleni Petraki Kiyomitsu Yui Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 3 CONTENTS I. Special Issue Editorial An Introduction to the Special Issue from 2018’s Qualitative Analysis Conference: Creating, Negotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in Everyday Life 6 Dawne Clarke Articles Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires 8 Clive Baldwin, Lauren Ripley Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project 28 Stella M. Čapek Othering of Full-Time and Volunteer Women Firefighters in the Canadian Fire Services 48 Lynne Gouliquer, Carmen Poulin, Jennifer McWilliams 4 ©2020 QSR Volume XVI Issue 3 II. Regular Issue Articles Meetings or Power Weeks? Boundary Work in a Transnational Police Project 70 Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors, Sophia Yakhlef Body, Beauty, and Death in an Andean Context: A Self-Ethnographic Narration 86 Jimena Silva Segovia An Attempt to Restore the Ordinary Death to the Visual Realm—Artistic, Therapeutic, and Ethical Aspects of the Post-Mortem Photography of Children in the 21st Century. Short Introduction 106 Łucja Lange Ethical Aspects of Social Research: Old Concerns in the Face of New Challenges and Paradoxes. A Reflection from the Field of Biographical Method 118 Kaja Kaźmierska Book Review Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2018. Advances in Contemplative Social Research. Lodz: Wydawnictwo UŁ / Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press 136 Vincenzo M. B. Giorgino Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 5 An Introduction to the Special Issue from 2018’s Qualitative Analysis Conference: Creating, Negotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in Everyday Life Dawne Clarke St. Thomas University, Canada DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.16.3.01 May 2018, qualitative researchers from taken-for-granted boundaries in health, political, so- all over the world met in Fredericton, cial, and economic contexts and what they mean in New Brunswick to participate in the a COVID-19 world. For example, in New Brunswick, 35th annual Qualitative Analysis Con- there have been reported instances of “plate sham- Inference. This conference brings together undergradu- ing” emerged as a practice that is a direct response to ate and graduate students, novice and established re- boundary “violations.” Out of province travelers, vis- searchers in an open and collegial forum to explore the ible because of their out-of-province license plates, are intricacies of qualitative research. shamed and humiliated, even punitively sanctioned for travelling from another province or state, violating Coming together under the auspices of Creating, Ne- provincial and/or federal boundaries. What was once gotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in an accepted, welcomed, and encouraging practice, es- Everyday Life, participants explored boundaries as pecially for provinces heavily-reliant on tourism, trav- a key concept in the social science tool-kit. Boundar- elling is now a boundary-violation. ies are a rich site of exploration, even more so now as we find ourselves establishing and challenging The three papers in this special issue appear to have little in common, however, the critical examination of boundaries in multiple social contexts speaks how boundaries shape, sustain, create, deter, prohibit all Dawne Clarke teaches in the Department of Criminolo- kinds of social, political, and economic facets of our gy & Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, everyday world. Physical, social, temporal, spatial, vir- NB, Canada. tual, and relational; boundaries provide a critical anal- ysis space to examine the everyday world. At the other email address: [email protected] end of the spectrum is transcending those boundaries. 6 ©2020 QSR Volume XVI Issue 3 An Introduction to the Special Issue from 2018’s Qualitative Analysis Conference: Creating, Negotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in Everyday Life This allows the exploration of new and emerging spac- Stella Čapek’s paper, Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating es deepening our understanding of boundaries as var- Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project, asks us ious shades of gray. Consider again plate shaming; we to consider how a small tree sapling grafted from the cannot assume the boundary violation is just that of chestnut tree that stood outside of Anne Frank’s attic the driver wanting access to the province. That bound- window while she wrote her famous diary can link the ary is maintained, or not, at the discretion of peace of- tree to dialogue about past and present social justice ficers stationed at the border. How does discretionary issues. The sapling, installed at the Clinton Presiden- authority reinforce or violate those state-sanctioned tial Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, acquires meaning boundaries? as a “significant other” and crosses social, political, historical, and social justice boundaries, reinforcing The following papers challenge boundary-making social science commitment to challenging the tak- activities in a variety of contexts. To begin, we enter en-for-granted understandings of the social world, in a world where the boundaries of what it means to be this case, a tree is so much more than a tree and it can human are questioned. Exploring Other-Than-Human transcend boundaries, creating a bridge between the Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therian- past and the present. thropes, and Vampires, by Clive Baldwin and Lauren Ripley, explores transgressing identity boundaries Finally, Lynne Gouliquer, Carmen Poulin, and Jennifer by investigating and acknowledging the gray-ar- McWilliams question the othering of female firefight- ea boundaries between human and non-human. ers and