Ethical Issues and Issues of Ethics

Girls looking for a ‘second home’: bodies, difference and places of inclusion

“…The different approaches researchers endorse are based on the kinds of issues that might arise given the context of research and the relationship researchers develop with the participants (Sinding, Gray, and Nisker 2008;Wiles et al 2008). There are, for instance, cases in participatory visual research in which researchers develop very close relationships with participants, or in which participants choose to disclose their identity.…”

“…There are, for instance, cases in participatory visual research in which researchers develop very close relationships with participants, or in which participants choose to disclose their identity. In these cases, anonymization of visual texts (e.g., photographs) becomes problematic (Sinding, Gray, and Nisker 2008). Blurring the faces of the participants can also be an issue when researching socio-cultural and identity issues (Wiles et al 2008).…”

Images of work, images of defiance: engaging migrant farm worker voice through community-based arts

“…An integral aspect of this project was to provide adequate space for workers themselves to collectively improvise their own representations of daily life as migrant farm workers. In the interests of respecting workers' own interpretations of life in Canada's SAWP, participants were therefore fully engaged in all aspects of developing artistic depictions (Sinding et al 2008). This meant that all participants were involved in artistic creation and that all of the images, characters, dialogue, and scenes that workers created were fully examined in relation to each individual worker's lived experiences, worldviews, and personal beliefs.…”

Altered Inquiry: Discovering Arts-Based Research through an Altered Book

“…Presenting this kind of research also involves particularly complex ethical challenges: “When research results are presented as art, and public access to the work is both enabled and deliberately arranged, our recontextualization of research participants' stories and lives become audible, visible, felt by them, in visceral and potentially lasting ways” (Sinding, Gray, & Nisker, 2008, p. 465). This meaning making is no longer “academic” or numeric, but felt, changing and significant to actual people, who may be confidential in name only, and (over)exposed in other personally risky ways.…”