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This handbook is a much-needed and in-depth review of the distinctive set of ethical considerations which accompanies qualitative research. This is particularly crucial given the emergent, dynamic and interactional nature of most qualitative research, which too often allows little time for reflection on the important ethical responsibilities and obligations Contributions from leading international researchers have been carefully organised into six key thematic sections: Part One: Thick Descriptions Of Qualitative Research Ethics Part Two: Qualitative Research Ethics By Technique Part Three: Ethics As Politics Part Four: Qualitative Research Ethics With Vulnerable Groups Part Five: Relational Research Ethics Part Six: Researching Digitally This Handbook is a one-stop resource on qualitative research ethics across the social sciences that draws on the lessons learned and the successful methods for surmounting problems - the tried and true, and the new.
Between Dance and Detention: Ethical Considerations of ‘Mesearch’ in Performance
Between Dance and Detention: Ethical Considerations of ‘Mesearch’ in Performance
Introduction
Within this chapter, I explore the notion of ‘mesearch', taking its departure from sociological and performing arts investigations in autoethnography and autobiography. I define ‘mesearch’ as a personalized research paradigm and more importantly I discuss the ethics of ‘doing mesearch'. While exploring the relationship between self and research within performing arts, I have come to the conclusion that there is no neutrality in reflexive research. Having engaged in practice-led research projects, it became clear that an objective lens in such subjective work is neither achievable, nor desirable. Both the subject (self) and objects of study are inextricably connected. This idea is essential to my principle of ‘mesearch'. The ...
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