§16§This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research. §04§1. Introduction .- 2. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness, in-field situatedness, post-field text situatedness .- 3. A century of thinking about situatedness: The Gestalt tradition .- 4. Conceptual inspiration from the Gestalt tradition .- 5. Interview techniques .- 6. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness and post-field textual situatedness .- 7. Philosophy of science: two ways of going about situatedness .- 8. Conclusion: Culture, power, ethics. §02§Cecilie Basberg Neumann is Associate Professor in Sociology at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. She is also a Gestalt therapist from the Norwegian Gestalt Institute in Oslo.§ § Iver B. Neumann is Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the author (with Kevin Dunn) of Discourse Analysis for Social Research.§