Abstract:
This paper explores the challenge of a disruption precipitated by a participant that occurred in an interview conducted in a comparative study on gendered academic career trajectories in New Zealand and Danish universities. Using the metaphor of a shooting arrow, the paper travels with the line of flight of the arrow through to a retooling of the conceptual framework of intersectionality. The metaphor of the shooting arrow is then utilized to explore the productive dimensions initiated by this disruption to rethink, readjust, and recalibrate intersectionality as a methodological tool in ways that avoid obvious connections and preconceptions when analyzing data. Tracing the line of flight further, the final section of the paper explores the reflexive nature of the interview process that twists the methodological framework of intersectionality and positions the interview as a performative event with its own temporal demarcations and boundaries
