La investigación como una aventura de producción dialógica: La relación con el otro y los criterios de validación en la metodología cualitativa contemporánea

Abstract

This text deals with some of the most relevant issues facing contemporary qualitative research following the crisis of positivist paradigms. The first issue refers to the change concerning the relationship with the other in the process of producing research. From being a process of gathering data placed on a subject, considered as an object, it is now considered a process of dialogic production between two subjects positioned differently. What is produced emerges, therefore, from this relation. This turn in our understanding of research has a necessary correlate with the criterion for validation that warrants research. This is the second issue that this paper deals with, accounting for the main contemporary proposals concerning the criterion that should be considered in order to endorse a research study as legitimate, given the new parameters that are defining qualitative research. Within this context, the criterions for legitimating research emerge with the purpose of warranting a work that is more performative than representative.