“…Ethnography facilitates a focus on research participants’ vision of their worlds, their relationships and also their points of view in a particular context (Hammersley 1998). Also ethnography permits children to contribute to research, in their own time and in their own ways (Bluebond‐Langer 1978, Fine & Sandstrom 1988, Laerke 1998, Emond 2005). This methodology is ideal for the study of everyday behaviour in a local setting (Savage 1995, 2000), making it appropriate to explore participants’ experiences in a hospital renal unit.…”
The conceptualisation of children's experience arising in this study provides a new way of considering the embodied experience of children with long-term renal illness.
“…Ethnography facilitates a focus on research participants’ vision of their worlds, their relationships and also their points of view in a particular context (Hammersley 1998). Also ethnography permits children to contribute to research, in their own time and in their own ways (Bluebond‐Langer 1978, Fine & Sandstrom 1988, Laerke 1998, Emond 2005). This methodology is ideal for the study of everyday behaviour in a local setting (Savage 1995, 2000), making it appropriate to explore participants’ experiences in a hospital renal unit.…”
The conceptualisation of children's experience arising in this study provides a new way of considering the embodied experience of children with long-term renal illness.
“…Is it possible to conduct participant observation and construct symmetrical relationships 24 with children? The answers to these questions emerge implicitly in debates between researchers analysing relationships of power and domination between adults and children, or examining the researcher's status, place and role in the field (Waksler 1986;Mandell 1991;Laerke 1998;Christensen 2004;Danic et al 2006;Christensen & James 2008b;Lignier 2008).…”
Section: Participant Observation With Childrenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to some, it is possible to reduce this alterity by assuming the role of least--adult (Mandell 1991) or enacting "generational performances" (Hejoaka & Zotian 2016). For others, it cannot be reduced, but it can be negotiated (Laerke 1998;Mayall 2008) through strategies such as assuming one role rather than another (supervisor, leader, observer or friend) and/or taking a "physically distant position" (Fine 1987;Danic et al 2006).…”
Section: Participant Observation With Childrenmentioning
La pratique de l’éthique : de l’anthropologie générale à l’anthropologie de l’enfance et retour. Ce texte prend pour cadre la manière dont les questions d’éthique sont communément abordées en anthropologie à partir des dilemmes issus de la pratique du terrain et les interrogations sur les limites des codes et comités éthiques. Il ambitionne de montrer les apports de l’anthropologie de l’enfance et des enfants à la réflexion. Pour ce faire, un détour par l’analyse critique de l’approche de l’éthique mise en œuvre dans des travaux des Childhood Studies est effectué ; il vise à interroger le risque de réduction de l’éthique à un dispositif méthodologique instrumental. À l’inverse, la mise en lumière de questions épistémologiques cruciales soulevées par la réflexion sur l’éthique en anthropologie de l’enfance et des enfants amène à revisiter certaines questions d’éthique en anthropologie générale.
“…Often they did not have the vocabulary to talk about what they did or they had started prostitution only recently and had little idea of what it actually involved. Other researchers have dealt with these problems much more successfully than I did (see Baker et al [1996] or Laerke [1998] for example), but transparency and honesty in discussion of fieldwork methods are important, and with hindsight, with more imaginative methods, I might have got closer to some of the younger children. The children I did work most closely with, therefore, were usually older and more articulate and also had a longer history of prostitution.…”
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Conducting anthropological fieldwork on the emotive issue of child prostitution raises difficult issues for anthropologists and other researchers. This article examines the ethical dilemmas of working with these extremely vulnerable children, focusing on the difference between the researcher's own interpretations and those given by the children themselves and the implications this has for child-centred anthropology and the implementation of children's rights.
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