Tuning to the Dance of Ethnography: Ethics during Situated Fieldwork in Single-Mother Child Protection Families

Verhallen, Tessa

doi:10.1086/687356

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“…This model draws on a cost-benefit analysis and abides by expectations held by bio-medically/ethically oriented university institutional review boards (Kosinski et al, 2015). These studies are based on abstract protocols in place to protect research participants against harm, as reasoned from the perspective of institutional audit culture, reputation management and safeguarding researchers from liability claims (Verhallen, 2016). Such a pragmatic approach has led to excesses, such as the infamous 'massive-scale emotional contagion' study of 689,003 Facebook users conducted by Cornell University scholars in collaboration with Facebook (Kramer, Guillory and Hancock, 2014).…”

Section: Ethics Of Care and Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Data Studies: Using Digital Methods for Ethical, Reflexive and Situated Socio-Cultural Research

Leurs¹

2017

Feminist Review

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What could a social-justice oriented, feminist data studies look like? The current datalogical turn foregrounds the digital datafication of everyday life, increasing algorithmic processing and data as an emergent regime of power/knowledge. Scholars celebrate the politics of big data knowledge production for its omnipotent objectivity or dismiss it outright as data fundamentalism that may lead to methodological genocide. In this feminist and postcolonial intervention into gender-, race-and geography-blind 'big data' ideologies, I call for ethical, anti-oppressive digital data-driven research in the social sciences and humanities. I argue that a reflexive data scholarship can emerge from the reintegration of feminist and postcolonial science studies and ethics of care ideals. Although it is not a panacea for all ails of data mining, I offer a road map for an alternative dataanalysis practice that is more power-sensitive and accountable. By incorporating a people-centric and contextaware perspective that acknowledges relationships of dependency, reflects on temptations, and scrutinises benefits and harm, an 'asymmetrically reciprocal' (Young, 1997) research encounter may be achieved. I bring this perspective to bear on experiences of a two-year research project with eighty-four young Londoners on digital identities and living in a highly diverse city. I align awareness of uneven relations of power and knowledge with the messy relation of dependency between human and non-human actors in data analysis. This framework productively recognises that digital data cannot be expected to speak for itself, that data do not emerge from a vacuum, and that isolated data patterns cannot be the end-goal of a situated and reflexive research endeavor. Data-driven research, in turn, shows the urgency for renewed feminist ethical reflection on how digital mediation impacts upon responsibility, intersectional power relations, human subjectivity and the autonomy of research participants over their own data. keywords data studies for social justice; feminist data studies; ethics of care; feminist and postcolonial internet studies; young people; anti-oppressive methods feminist review 115 2017

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Section: Ethics Of Care and Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Data Studies: Using Digital Methods for Ethical, Reflexive and Situated Socio-Cultural Research

Leurs¹

2017

Feminist Review

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“…Algunos de estos análisis consideran favorable establecer un marco general sobre las responsabilidades del investigador, mientras que otros argumentan que los códigos no son la única forma de institucionalizar los estándares morales de la disciplina (7). Con respecto a esto, se han hecho críticas referidas a su utilidad, retórica y función legal (8) en las que se argumenta que la realidad del trabajo de campo supera aquellos lineamientos éticos, ya que poco tienen que ver con las controversias vividas en la realidad (9). Bourgois (10), por ejemplo, destaca que la confrontación que se vive en campo, a raíz del análisis de las relaciones de poder desiguales o las violaciones a los derechos humanos de las poblaciones estudiadas, generan confrontaciones éticas fundamentales que son contradictorias a las definiciones antropológicas actuales de la ética en la investigación.…”

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Dilemas, disonancias y conflictos éticos del trabajo de campo en antropología médica en contextos institucionales de atención a la salud

Martín

Colmenares-Roa²,

Fay³

et al. 2022

Rev. latinoam. bioet

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El trabajo de campo etnográfico, que implica el encuentro con la otredad, es utilizado por la antropología médica para acercarse a la comprensión de problemáticas sociales relacionadas con la salud, la enfermedad, la atención y la muerte. El objetivo del trabajo fue realizar una reflexión ética de diversas situaciones conflictivas experimentadas por tres antropólogas durante sus investigaciones en México, a través del análisis de sus diarios de campo. Con este fin, se realizó un análisis grupal e interdisciplinario desde una perspectiva ética. Los conflictos encontrados se clasificaron en: 1. Dilemas éticos (como la sinceridad vs. ocultamiento de información); 2. Disonancias éticas (como la justicia en el acceso de los informantes a los servicios médicos, el acceso y la identidad del antropólogo en campo, los límites de la intervención, la reciprocidad y las emociones del investigador); y 3. Otros (conflictos éticos tales como la observación del paternalismo médico y las diferencias disciplinares entre el quehacer antropológico y el médico). Este análisis permitió comprender a través de una alerta ético-metodológica los posicionamientos epistemológicos, metodológicos y, principalmente, éticos de las investigadoras que, de manera subrepticia, guían la construcción del quehacer antropológico. Asimismo, la investigación permitió vislumbrar la responsabilidad de las acciones o inacciones del investigador frente a las personas observadas dentro de un contexto de atención en salud.

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“…The tension between formal ethics and ethics in the field testifies to the diversity of terms used for ethical encounters while conducting fieldwork: relational ethics (Ellis, 2007;Bergum & Dossetor, 2005, Larkin et al ., 2008, situational ethics (Munteanu et al, 2015;Verhallen, 2016), ethics on the spot (Øye et al, 2016), in-action ethics (Frauenberger et al, 2016), situated ethics (Maguire, 2004;Balka et al, 2007;Lock, 2001;Capstick, 2012), micro-ethics (Komesaroff, 2005Spiel et al, 2016), ethics in practice (Guillemin & Gillam, 2004;Hopkins, 2007), informal ethics (LeCompte & Schensul, 2015), and every day or ordinary ethics (Lambek, 2010;Lichtner, 2014;Banks et al, 2013). Firstly, these terms highlight a gap between static anticipatory procedural ethics and the dynamics, unpredictability and messiness of "immeasurable" (Sleeboom-Faulkner et al, 2017) ethics when researchers enter the field (the real world).…”

Section: Research On Ethics In the Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conversations between procedural and situated ethics: Learning from video research with children in a cancer care ward

2019

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Since the turn of the century we see a renewed interest in the impact of hospital environments on children's well-being. With policy largely built around adult assumptions, knowledge about these environments from young people's perspectives is limited. Participatory visual research is considered helpful to explore people's perspectives in other than solely verbal ways. Conducting it with children in sensitive and hard-to-enter contexts like hospital wards, however, poses important ethical questions. Discussions tend to contrast procedural ethics with ethics in the field, showing how the former are unfitted for this kind of research. This paper takes a more constructive approach by reflecting on what we can learn from these ethical encounters while preparing and conducting a pilot study. We argue that exploring, rather than closing, the experienced gap between design research and healthcare ethical protocols establishes a shared space of reflection that offers a stepping stone to link both.

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Tuning to the Dance of Ethnography: Ethics during Situated Fieldwork in Single-Mother Child Protection Families

Cited by 9 publications

References 60 publications

Feminist Data Studies: Using Digital Methods for Ethical, Reflexive and Situated Socio-Cultural Research

Feminist Data Studies: Using Digital Methods for Ethical, Reflexive and Situated Socio-Cultural Research

Dilemas, disonancias y conflictos éticos del trabajo de campo en antropología médica en contextos institucionales de atención a la salud

Conversations between procedural and situated ethics: Learning from video research with children in a cancer care ward

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