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Accommodating Conflicting Realities: The Messy Practice of Ethical (Self) Regulation

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Title: Accommodating Conflicting Realities: The Messy Practice of Ethical (Self) Regulation
Language: English
Authors: Fletcher, Gillian
Source: International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 2017 20(3):275-284.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 10
Publication Date: 2017
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Ethics, Self Control, Researchers, Research Methodology, Power Structure, Social Influences, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Interviews, Cultural Influences
Geographic Terms: Burma
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1287873
ISSN: 1364-5579
Abstract: When I began to undertake qualitative PhD research in Myanmar, I found myself caught between the demands of an ethics approval process that required researcher certainty about 'risk', and the reality of a research site where I would be able at best to part-glimpse the risks people faced. I found space to work through holding to the process of critical 'languaging'; paying ongoing attention to power dynamics within interviews while engaging in 'a social process in which we jointly construct realities for each of us to see, occupy and to talk "into"' (emphasis in original). In this article, I reflect on the tensions between ethical process and research practice and argue that researchers should consider critical languaging as an important ethical tool.
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 39
Entry Date: 2018
Accession Number: EJ1189868
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:When I began to undertake qualitative PhD research in Myanmar, I found myself caught between the demands of an ethics approval process that required researcher certainty about 'risk', and the reality of a research site where I would be able at best to part-glimpse the risks people faced. I found space to work through holding to the process of critical 'languaging'; paying ongoing attention to power dynamics within interviews while engaging in 'a social process in which we jointly construct realities for each of us to see, occupy and to talk "into"' (emphasis in original). In this article, I reflect on the tensions between ethical process and research practice and argue that researchers should consider critical languaging as an important ethical tool.
ISSN:1364-5579
DOI:10.1080/13645579.2017.1287873