Description
This handbook highlights the growing tensions surrounding the current dominant ethical clearance model which is increasingly being questioned, particularly in critical research. It draws on stories from the field in critical research conducted in a range of contexts and countries and on an array of topics. The authors involved in this collection encountered dilemmas, contradictions and surprises that brought about a change in their understanding of ethics. Throughout the book they discuss how ethics is an ongoing and situated struggle that requires researchers, at times, to traverse traditional ethical imperatives. Four sections lead readers through the complexities of grounded ethical practice: encountering systems, including Ethics Committees and institutions; blurring boundaries within research; the politics of voice, anonymity and confidentiality; and power relations in researching ‘down’, ‘up’, and ‘alongside’. This handbook is a resource for social science researchers using critical methodologies across a range of disciplines, as well as for students and teachers of ethics, in navigating the quandaries of ‘doing good’ while doing good research.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Ethics in critical research: Stories from the field.- Chapter 2: Encounters with systems within which critical research is conducted.- Chapter 3: Ethics in theory and pseudo-ethics in practice.- Chapter 4: Researching sexual healthcare for women with problematic drug use: Returning to ethical principles in study processes.- Chapter 5: Contesting the nature of young pregnant and mothering women: critical healthcare nexus research, ethics committees, and healthcare institutions.- Chapter 6: Ethics in transdisciplinary research: Reflections on the implications of ‘science with society’.- Chapter 7: Non-human Animals as Research Participants: Ethical Practice in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Research in Aotearoa/New Zealand.- Chapter 8: Critical Enquiry in the Context of Research-Ethics Review Guidelines: Some Unique and Subtle Challenges.- Chapter 9: Introduction: Blurring Boundaries.- Chapter 10: Blurred researcher-participant boundaries in critical research: Do non-clinicians and clinicians experience similar dual role tensions?.- Chapter 11: Blurring boundaries between researcher and participant: the ethical use of a Psychoanalytically Informed Research Interview.- Chapter 12: Bearing witness to ‘irreparable harm’: Incorporating affective activity as practice into ethics.- Chapter 13: In the Red: Between Research, Activism, and Community Development in a Menstruation Public Health Intervention.- Chapter 14: Living in a rural community and researching HIV and AIDS: positionality and ethics.- Chapter 15: Introduction: The politics of anonymity and confidentiality.- Chapter 16: To be or not to be … Revealing questions of anonymity and confidentiality.- Chapter 17: Cripping the ethics of disability arts research.- Chapter 18: The ethics of allowing participants to be named in critical research with indigenous peoples in colonised settings: Examples from health research with Māori.- Chapter 21.- Researching ‘down’, ‘up’, and ‘alongside’.- Chapter 22: Ethical research and the policing of masculinity: Experiences of a male researcher doing ethnography with young school children.- Chapter 23: Challenging methodological and ethical conventions to facilitate research that is responsive to people with learning disabilities.- Chapter 27: Subjects and objects: An ethic of representing the Other.- Chapter 28: Traversing ethical imperatives: Learning from stories from the field.- Conclusion.
