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	Kritisk fenomenologi	Interpretiv fenomenologi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	Late 20th–early 21st century (fully articulated ~2000s–2010s)	1927 (Heidegger); systematised for human sciences by van Manen in 1990
Upphovsperson	Lisa Guenther, Gayle Salamon, Alia Al-Saji (among others); draws on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Frankfurt School critical theory	Martin Heidegger (philosophical foundation); Max van Manen (methodological systematisation)
Typ	Qualitative research approach — interpretive and emancipatory	Qualitative interpretive research design
Ursprungskälla	Guenther, L. (2020). Critical phenomenology. In G. Weiss, A. V. Murphy, & G. Salamon (Eds.), 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (pp. 11–16). Northwestern University Press. ISBN: 978-0810141018	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645
Alias	critical-phenomenological inquiry, critical-phenomenological analysis, phenomenology and critical theory, politically engaged phenomenology	hermeneutic phenomenology, van Manen phenomenology, Heideggerian phenomenology, interpretive phenomenological inquiry
Närliggande	6	5
Sammanfattning	Critical phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that merges classical phenomenological methods with critical theory to examine how structural forces — race, gender, class, disability, and other axes of power — shape and constrain lived experience. Rather than pursuing neutral description of universal essences, it asks whose experiences are centred, whose are marginalised, and how oppressive social structures are reproduced in the body and in everyday life. It has been consolidated as a distinct field by scholars such as Lisa Guenther, Gayle Salamon, and Alia Al-Saji.	Interpretive phenomenology is a qualitative research design that investigates the meaning people attribute to their lived experiences by combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. Rooted in Heidegger's ontology and systematised for social and human sciences by Max van Manen, it moves beyond description to ask what an experience means within a person's broader lifeworld, cultural context, and situated understanding. The researcher's own interpretive horizon is treated as an analytical resource rather than a bias to eliminate.