On Research Ethics and Ethical Responsibilities
Facing Up to Sexual Harassment and Assault During Field Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12377770 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Mershon (0000-0001-6462-5200, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 292-296 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096523000707 |
| OpenAlex | W4390765757 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
What are the ethical responsibilities that social science researchers have, not only to the people we study but also to ourselves as scholars and other scholars? This article argues that as political and social scientists, we need to expand our notion of research ethics, to adopt a notion that embraces treatment of our subject–participants and ourselves as researchers. This study is anchored in the still-growing literature on research ethics in fieldwork and draws on political science work on the ethical implications of the risks and realities of sexual violence for scholars who conduct fieldwork. The article looks beyond political science to feminist-informed research in the social sciences as it develops the argument about the ethical responsibilities of social scientists. In investigating the overarching question, the article addresses resources for survivors of sexual harassment and assault during field research
Argument (complex analysis · Criminology · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Harassment · Political science · Politics · Research ethics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Medicine · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Science and Policy Research
Doing Feminist Research in Political and Social Science
Diversity in political science
Finding Your Feet in the Field
Reflexivity in Practice
Narrating victimhood
Silence Breakers in War and Peace
Reforming Institutional Review Board Policy
Challenges and Strategies
Methodological Impasses
Trauma to self and other
Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge
Do no harm? Field research in the Global South
Report on the 2017 Apsa Survey on Sexual Harassment at Annual Meetings
Beyond the Field
Ethics, Epistemology, and Openness in Research with Human Participants
Sexual Harassment and Assault During Field Research
Ethics Abroad
Research Ethics 101
Ethics, empathy, and fear in research on violent conflict
The American Political Science Association
The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in Conflict Zones
Sexual(ized) harassment and ethnographic fieldwork
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |