The Researcher and the Beast

Uncovering Processes of Othering and Becoming Animal in Research Ventures in the Field of Critical Disability Studies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2385755
AutoresCaroline Vandekinderen (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium), G Roets (0000-0003-0746-998X, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium), Geert Van Hove (0000-0003-3266-0524, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
Ano2014
Volume20
Fascículo3
Páginas296-316
Data de publicação2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800413489267
OpenAlexW1994591083
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas53

In this article, we discuss not only the complexity of some difficult ethical issues but also the peculiar and reciprocal engagements that emerged during the research process carried out with Jimmy Sax, along with the ways in which we have attempted to deal with the ethics of research to avoid a reproduction of processes of Othering in the field of critical disability studies. In the existing body of qualitative research literature, an increasing number of researchers document their experience of the issue of situational and relational research ethics. However, since research evolves as an activity embedded in social, political, and historical contexts, we argue that qualitative researchers should also embrace sociopolitical research ethics. In that vein, inspired by poststructuralist (and) feminist philosophers, we identify and discuss two different conceptualizations of research ethics, referring to care for the other and care of the self

Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Reciprocal · Research ethics · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics