"Disaster Research "Methics

Ethical and Methodological Considerations of Researching Disaster-Affected Populations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4952771
AutoresBethany L Van Brown (Cabrini University, Radnor, PA, USA), Bethany Brown (0000-0001-9688-5656, Cabrini University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume64
Fascículo8
Páginas1050-1065
Data de publicação2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764220938115
OpenAlexW3038999570
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas22

How we do research directly affects what we know about the subject matter under study. While the study of disaster events continues to grow, rigorous inquiry on disaster research methodology is limited because it is confounded by the disruption a disaster presents. Yet it is precisely at that point that special methodological problems emerge. The methodological-and inherently ethical-challenges disaster researchers face became apparent to me during my own fieldwork on domestic violence organizations and their recovery trajectory following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. In this article, I explore methodological and ethical issues that lay beneath "studying" people in the wake of disaster events and argue that ethical concerns should have the same, if not greater, primacy as methods; a dual consideration I refer to as "methics." My findings support this argument and add to the growing chorus advocating for a paradigm shift in disaster research methods

Argument (complex analysis) · Criminology · Disaster research · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Ethical issues · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · Poison control · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Engineering · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research