Sensing Spirits

Eaton, Marc A.

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“…60 Authors and regulatory guidance emphasize the need for accessible language (written or spoken) especially in terms of informed consent. 61 According to the literature, informed consent is a crucial element in research ethics as this is the key approach to ensure the research process is transparent to the participants. 62 Potential harm: Some participants -and their voice -may be excluded from research because they cannot understand the main language used at a university or by researchers.…”

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Research ethics in a multilingual world: A guide to reflecting on language decisions in all disciplines

Meier,

Van der Voet,

Yan

2024

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Doing research in a globalized context – regardless of the discipline – requires language decisions at different stages of the research process. Many of these language decisions have ethical implications. Existing literature and ethical guidance tend to focus on ethical concerns that arise in communication with participants who use a language different from the main research language. As this article shows, language decisions with potential ethical implications can occur in many additional ways. Two questions guided this work: how do language decisions and research ethics intersect at different stages of the research process, and what potential harm is related to language decisions and how can such concerns be mitigated? Relevant literature – combined with practical research experiences – show that language decisions can potentially result in harm at the conception stage of research projects, when working with participants, during data analysis, interpretation, and dissemination, as well as when managing a research project. Thus, the article highlights that the role of language-related ethical dilemmas is not only organizational (e.g., ensuring participants can understand what the research is about), but also social (e.g., developing trust and relationships in research teams) as well as ideological (e.g., awareness of power structures and diverse worldviews). In order to support researchers in globalized contexts, this article offers a reflective framework that complements regulatory guidance issued by ethical bodies and facilitates a deeper awareness of ethical implications related to language decisions in a multilingual world.

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Research ethics in a multilingual world: A guide to reflecting on language decisions in all disciplines

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2024

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“…These groups frequently use technological devices such as electromagnetic field (EMF) readers, audio and video recorders, and other similar tools. Other scholars (Eaton 2020; Hill 2017) have noted that such objects bring an aura of scientific credibility to paranormal investigation. Ironside and Wooffitt's unique insight is that the placement of such objects is also critical to their function as interpretive resources.…”

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Interacting with Ghosts

Eaton

2022

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Making Sense of the Paranormal, by Rachael Ironside and Robin Wooffitt, is a compelling study of how paranormal investigators "come to interpret events in their environment as representing the presence or agency of spiritual entities" (p. 123). Rooted in conversation analysis of paranormal investigations, in which the first author participated between 2006 and 2010, it examines how investigators utilize talk, embodied action, and objects to make sense of strange experiences in reportedly haunted locations. Their analysis of paranormal investigators' interpretive work reveals how "the social reality of ghosts is produced in the moment" (p. 126). More generally, this book increases interactionist understanding of how talk, action, and objects are interwoven in ongoing meaning-making activity, and adds to the literature by highlighting how empty spaces may be meaningful in these processes.The book is comprised of six chapters. It begins with a discussion of the book's empirical focus on the collective production of uncanny experiences before reviewing the methodological approach used and the data upon which this method was applied (Chapter 1). The introductory framing of the book is followed by a chapter that argues that both sociology and research on the paranormal have largely overlooked and undervalued the role of embodiment as a means of experiencing, expressing, and understanding anomalous events. Ironside and Wooffitt then shift to the analysis of their data. In Chapter 3, they present data excerpts that illustrate how investigators of the paranormal integrate talk, action, and objects to make sense of unusual sensory experiences and readings from technological devices during paranormal investigations. Chapter 4 focuses more explicitly on how investigators use language to orient listeners to unexplained phenomena and exert a normative pressure to define these phenomena as paranormal. The next chapter shows how a shared impression of being in the presence of a spirit is collaboratively produced through individual physical displays as well as various forms of embodied interactions among investigators. Finally, Chapter 6 situates the book's central arguments in relation to relevant scholarship

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Experiencing the (Anomalous) Moment

Ironside

Wooffitt

2021

Making Sense of the Paranormal

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Research ethics in a multilingual world: A guide to reflecting on language decisions in all disciplines

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