Nostalgia, goodness and ethical paradox

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2403171
AutoresLace Marie Brogden (0009-0006-9082-1516, University of Regina), Donna Patterson (University of Regina)
Año2007
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas217-227
Fecha de publicación2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468794107076021
OpenAlexW2017795280
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas15

We research in Saskatchewan, in the Dry Land elucidated by Trevor Herriot (2001). We start with his notion that 'those of us who live west of the 100th meridian have been using nostalgia to construct a romance fiction out of our history... there is no denying the power of nostalgia' (p. 2). Our landscape shapes us as we in turn shape it, we feel obligated to be sensitive to the glamours of nostalgia. Our prairie landscape evokes questions: What does it mean to research ethically in this space? What are the possible foci of our nostalgia? And, how do we navigate the ethical paradoxes in which we find ourselves? This article argues that research pushed by cultural norms creates double-binds around notions of 'good' and 'R/right'. By juxtaposing nostalgia and goodness, we examine ethical paradoxes facing us as academics in renegotiating these double-binds

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Romance · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy