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McGowan, W (2020) ‘If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry’: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context. Methodological Innovations, 13 (2). ISSN 2059-7991
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Abstract
This article takes Guillemin and Gillam’s (2004) distinction between ‘procedural ethics’ and ‘ethics in practice’ as a point of departure and return for reflecting critically on a recently completed doctoral research project about political violence and terrorism. It provides an overview of the study before offering some instructive vignettes to show how ethical decision-making processes engaged with ‘in the field’ were an extension of more everyday and mundane reasoning than we may typically associate with such quintessentially ‘sensitive research’. As the final section of the paper argues, it is this everyday and mundane quality to ethical reasoning which is sometimes obscured in formal accounts of ‘reflexivity’. It is hoped that the paper is useful for scholars interested in the ethics and emotional practices of qualitative inquiry, as well as those researching serious violence and bereavement.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics |
| Divisions: | Justice Studies (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2020 11:13 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 07:12 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1177/2059799120926086 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13075 |
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