- Title
- Bearing Witness to ‘Irreparable Harm': Incorporating Affective Activity as Practice into Ethics
- Creator
- Barker, Kim, Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434185
- Identifier
- vital:73037
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-319-74720-0
- Identifier
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-74721-7_12
- Description
- Research with individuals who have experienced trauma requires careful consideration. In preparing the ethics protocol for an ethnographic study of an anti-rape protest, we gave careful consideration to the potential ethical challenges in accordance with the University ethics code. However, this process did not prepare the first author for the dynamic and reciprocal positioning she encountered in relationships in the field or the ‘ethically important’ moment-by-moment decision-making which this required of her. Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, a feminist reading of the contemporary ‘turn to affect’, and examples from our research, we show how ethical decision-making in ethnographic research is always relational and dialogical, both in our direct interactions with participants and in the ways in which we approach our ‘data’.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Barker, K. and Macleod, C.I., 2018. Bearing Witness to ‘Irreparable Harm’: Incorporating Affective Activity as Practice into Ethics. The Palgrave handbook of ethics in critical research, pp.179-194
- Rights
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