"More Than "Crumbs
Emotional Entanglements and Situated Ethical Strategies in Qualitative Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilaria Pitti (0000-0002-6270-501X, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 678-695 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642221145021 |
| OpenAlex | W4313502902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
Emotional entanglements developing between researchers and participants are an unavoidable experience in qualitative research, whose methods largely rely on emotions, intimacy, and relationships. Despite urged to exercise reflexivity, researchers rarely have the opportunity to deconstruct the emotional aspects of their investigations, which are often perceived as problems rather than as resources. Drawing on feminist methodology, this article argues that emotional entanglements should be considered neither as methodological "troubles" that must be avoided at all costs nor as strategies to gain richer data, but as important ethical moments that can help researchers reconsider, re-adjust, and update the tools they employ to collect and disseminate data. Using "confessional tales" written during qualitative studies I have conducted with young people involved in a variety of subcultural practices, I explore strategies for dealing with emotional entanglements in a meaningful and ethical way. In so doing, this article aims to add to the literature on the tensions between formal ethics and ethics in the field
Confessional · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ethical issues · Field (mathematics) · Political science · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Social Science and Policy Research
The Ethnographic Self
R-Words
Frame analysis
Tales of the Field
Miradas feministas y/o de género al Trabajo Social, un análisis crítico [Social Work from the Feminist and/or Gender Visions. A Critical Analysis]
Fieldwork, ethnography and the empirical affect montage
Youth and Unconventional Political Engagement
Doing Feminist Research
“How Will You Give Back?”
Feltness
Emotional landscapes; discomfort in the field
The Roles We Played
Boundary-making in feminist research
Objectivity and truth
Interviewing women
Can there be a feminist ethnography
Co-constructing feminist research
Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography
Being women in a male preserve
Friendship as a scientific method
Nothing Comes Without Its World
Situated Knowledges
Researcher, Analyze Thyself
The intimate insider
Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives
Ethics, Reflexivity, and "Ethically Important Moments" in Research
Friendship as Method
Contradictions of Feminist Methodology
The Sorrow of Parting
Close But Not Too Close
Analytic Autoethnography
Friendship, Friendliness, and Feminist Fieldwork
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |