Social work practitioners in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Lessons from a critical ethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9972818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melinda Williams Moore (The University of Georgia, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-394 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872816644664 |
| OpenAlex | W2436299929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article presents candid lessons learned by an ‘outsider’ conducting qualitative research in Northern Ireland over a 15-month period. Former combatant women ( N = 14) with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were interviewed using a critical ethnography framework. The findings include a description of difficulties in conducting such research in the areas of accessing hard-to-reach samples, building trust and credibility over time, having a main gatekeeper, maintaining an apolitical position, modeling non-judgmental attitudes, and at all costs safeguarding confidentiality. These lessons resonated with the core tenets of social work practice which enabled and facilitated the conduct of this study
Combatant · Confidentiality · Credibility · Critical ethnography · Ethnography · Irish · Northern ireland · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Safeguarding · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Women and Political Violence
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design
Children and Youth on the Front Line
Surviving Field Research
Ethnic conflict
Universal access
Bringing the Leviathan Back In
Menstrual Blood as a Weapon of Resistance
Girls in fighting forces and groups
(Gendered) War
Transcending Ethnoreligious Identities in Northern Ireland
The composite approach
Social Work Education in the Context of Armed Political Conflict
Learning Lessons from the Past or Re-Visiting Old Mistakes
Facing Reality
Emergency Routine
Social Work, Sectarianism and Anti-sectarian Practice in Northern Ireland
The Impact of Political Conflict on Social Work
Importance of Empathy for Social Work Practice
Beyond trauma-focused psychiatric epidemiology
Rebels' Perspectives of the Legacy of Past Violence and of the Current Peace in Post‐Agreement Northern Ireland
Loyalist Women Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
The Limits of Legitimacy
Negotiating Dangerous Fields
Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering
Creating a Shared Society in Northern Ireland
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |