What's love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3486040
AutoresBrenda Herbert (0009-0001-7476-8405, Goldsmiths University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen73
Número5
Páginas1066-1084
Fecha de publicación2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380261251335490
OpenAlexW4410693155
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas30

When Tina Turner sang 'What's love got to do with it?' she could have been singing about live methods . This article reflects on my experience as a reluctant ethnographer with children during COVID-19. I argue that it was 'love' for the community I was researching with that led me to use live methods . In this article I reflect on how love is the driving force in live methods . Taking inspiration from bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, I explore how love does indeed have everything to do with live methods and is not 'a second-hand emotion' but can definitely break your heart. My reflections are based on an 18-month multimodal ethnography that I undertook for my PhD studies with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social care intervention. The multimodal ethnography began in March 2020 just as the restrictions for COVID-19 in the UK began. Whilst I had originally planned for in-person methods, the children and I had to quickly navigate and negotiate a way to continue the research. On reflection I can identify elements of Back and Puwar's manifesto in my methods, but undergirding my research was something I now recognise as love. In this article I reflect how I reluctantly came to my methodology and methods not because of my sociological sensibilities but due to the love for the families I was researching with. I reflect and argue how love needs to underpin live methods

Criminology · Domestic violence · Intervention (counseling) · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Work (physics) · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work