Becoming Trustworthy in Ethically Engaged, Relational Feminist Inquiry

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ID6164468
AuthorsHilary E Hughes (0000-0001-6114-7733, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, corresponding author), Rachel Ranschaert (0000-0001-8050-0563, University of North Texas, Denton, USA), Kelsey Benson (0000-0001-7693-9194, University of Wisconsin–Superior), Amy Murphy (0000-0002-8917-6912, University of Georgia, Athens, USA), Dylan Brody (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
Year2025
Volume32
Issue6
Pages520-526
Publication date2025-11-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778004251387077
OpenAlexW7104181071
LanguageEN
References cited14

In this article, we explore trustworthiness as an emergent practice grounded in feminist, poststructural, and relational ethics-rather than a static set of post hoc criteria. Through our work with one middle school in the southern United States, we show how trustworthiness became something continually negotiated through everyday encounters marked by grief, uncertainty, and care. Rather than offering new criteria, we trace how we worked to become trustworthy to that middle school community, in moments that called for attunement more than clarity and presence more than protocol. What began as a study of student well-being became an experiment in what relational, ethically engaged feminist inquiry could look like when the world, and our research within it, came undone

Attunement · Certainty · CLARITY · Grounded theory · Meaning (existential · Qualitative research · Set (abstract data type · Trustworthiness · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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