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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.
Feminist Epistemologies and Ethics: Ecological Thinking, Situated Knowledges, Epistemic Responsibilities
Feminist Epistemologies and Ethics: Ecological Thinking, Situated Knowledges, Epistemic Responsibilities
An ethical judgment is not a quantitative calculation at root but an acknowledgement of responsibility for a relationship. (Haraway, 2000: 147)
[R]esponsibility/accountability issues are … to my mind, both epistemological and ethical. (Code, 1995: xiv)
Introduction
Every story has many versions and origins. One version of the beginnings of feminist epistemologies, as a field of scholarly attention, was that it began with four seemingly simple, yet deeply provocative concerns that ignited decades of debate. The first arose when Canadian feminist philosopher Lorraine Code posed what she later called (1998: 73) an ‘outrageous question’ in her piece entitled, ‘Is the sex of the knower epistemologically significant?’ (Code, 1981). A couple of years ...
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