Toward Epistemological Ethics: Centering Communities and Social Justice in Qualitative Research

Guishard, Monique; Halkovic, Alexis; Galletta, Anne; Li, Peiwei

doi:10.17169/fqs-19.3.3145

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“…Healing thus takes place within everyday practices as it draws on a sense of humility, upholds the dignity of all those involved in research (communities, participants, research team members), incorporates reflexive practices, and works to enact social justice. Guishard et al (2018) offer several key conditions consistent with a radical ethical consciousness. Although referencing qualitative research, we believe these core components can be adapted to most social science research involving human participants.…”

Section: Petal One: Healing Research Maintains Social Justice Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Resistance and restoration: Healing research methodologies for the global majority.

Lee

Ogunfemi

Neville

et al. 2023

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives: Recently, research has focused both on the influence of institutional racism and how the Global Majority, which includes Black, Indigenous and People of Color, heal from processes related to racial and other forms of oppression. We propose a framework of healing research methodologies that is situated within emerging diversity science trends. This framework specifically is designed to apply diversity science principles to develop research that is culturally relevant and can help explain intragroup processes related to healing from institutional racism. Methods: Drawing from the diversity science, liberation and critical research methodologies, and psychological healing practices literature, we propose a healing research methodologies framework. Results: The healing research methodologies framework consists of six critical components: maintains social justice ethics, adopts liberation methodologies, implements healing methods, embraces interdisciplinary approaches, catalyzes action, and promotes community accessibility. Conclusions: We offer recommendations to guide future diversity science healing research. Public Significance StatementCombining the disparate threads of existing literature on psychological healing practices, we created a healing research methodologies framework to address systems of harm that disproportionately impact the Global Majority, which includes Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States. This framework extends diversity science through a strengths-based approach to uplift these communities and offers suggestions for its implementation to promote resistance and restoration through research.

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Section: Petal One: Healing Research Maintains Social Justice Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Resistance and restoration: Healing research methodologies for the global majority.

Lee

Ogunfemi

Neville

et al. 2023

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…If human behavior remains psychology’s key object of study, what do ethics actually do to inform this relationship? And how does our disciplinary investment in ethics limit how we can imagine psychologists’ relationship to and with our objects of study, that is, the public (Guishard et al, 2018)?…”

Section: The Problem With Good Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…How might psychology’s emphasis on ethics consolidate norms that inhibit public psychology? Perhaps no single document shapes the practice of psychology in the U.S. more than the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (APA, 2017; Guishard et al, 2018), known colloquially as the ethics code. The ethics code is a regularly revised (since 1953) document that reflects expectations for psychologists across areas of professional life, including clinical work, teaching, and research.…”

Section: The Problem With Good Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…How do we square opposition to the historic and present harms of professional psychology, including collusion with state torture and the pathologization of gender diversity (Ansara & Hegarty, 2012), with adherence to ethical standards produced within those same institutions? We do not provoke these questions to position ethics as singular, regressive, or conservative and justice as liberatory, diverse, and progressive a priori (e.g., Guishard et al, 2018). Rather, we suggest that the idealistic commitments of a public psychology yet-unrealized must consider the boundaries of ethical paradigms, the epistemic and pragmatic complexity of justice, and the implications of both for how we train for, evaluate, and implement “good” psychology.…”

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An argument for bad psychology: Disciplinary disruption, public engagement, and social transformation.

Grzanka¹,

Cole²

2021

American Psychologist

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How might core values of psychology impede efforts to promote public psychology? We identify some of the ways the discipline’s aspirations for publicly engaged science are undermined by its norms, particularly when engaging with communities affected by historically entrenched, structural inequalities. We interrogate what makes for “good” psychology, including methodological and ethical norms that are used to maintain scientific integrity and police the boundaries of the discipline. We suggest that some of the discipline’s classical tenets and contemporary movements may produce structural, epistemic barriers to the production of science and practice that enhance the public good. Reflecting critically on the rise of implicit bias training in institutional diversity efforts as a case study, we consider how evidence-based efforts to intervene in social problems on behalf of the so-called public interest can inadvertently reproduce or exacerbate extant inequities. We turn to various social movements’ reclamation of what counts as “bad” to imagine a psychology that refuses to adjust itself to racism and structural inequality. We argue that much of what psychologists might characterize as “bad” should not be viewed as antithetical to the very best kind of psychological practice, particularly trailblazing work that reimagines the relationship between psychologists and society.

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“…The often-cited role of researcher-as-facilitator (Bryce, 2012;Gubrium et al, 2014;Lykes & Scheib, 2015;Pfister et al, 2014;Switzer, 2019;Wang & Burris, 1997;Warne et al, 2012) implies a need for examining one's positionality or social location before engaging with coresearchers, a topic that has been discussed extensively in the photovoice literature (Bryce, 2012;Coats & Austin, 2014;Hill, 2013;Mannay, 2009). This self-examination also intersects with issues of photovoice ethics, which have been debated extensively (Allen, 2012;Guishard et al, 2018;Harley, 2012;Murray & Nash, 2016;Switzer, 2018;Wang & Redwood-Jones, 2001;Wiles et al, 2008).…”

Section: Researcher-as-facilitatormentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Anticolonial Photovoice: A Research Practice Guide to Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

Fricas

2022

Journal of Participatory Research Methods

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Photovoice researchers must avoid an ahistorical application of the method by critically examining the implementation and dissemination of photovoice projects. Recognizing that photovoice is not automatically empowering and that dismantling power dynamics is an ongoing struggle requiring constant vigilance to ethical, methodological, and representational issues, I propose an anticolonial framework for photovoice, drawing on the work of anticolonial scholars. This approach acknowledges the legacies of colonialism and racism within health and research systems, an imperative for researchers working with Indigenous and marginalized communities. I address multiple phases of a photovoice project, problematizing power relations in each phase and suggesting how to anticolonially adapt theoretical orientations and methodological processes. Areas under-addressed in the photovoice literature, such as epistemic justice, recruitment power relations, decolonized concepts of rigor, problematization of pseudonyms/anonymizing, and cross-language research and writing, are discussed, interweaving analyses with practical guidance from and outcomes of my photovoice research with Indigenous and mestizo communities in Ecuador.

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Toward Epistemological Ethics: Centering Communities and Social Justice in Qualitative Research

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Resistance and restoration: Healing research methodologies for the global majority.

Resistance and restoration: Healing research methodologies for the global majority.

An argument for bad psychology: Disciplinary disruption, public engagement, and social transformation.

Towards an Anticolonial Photovoice: A Research Practice Guide to Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

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