Toward Epistemological Ethics: Centering Communities and Social Justice in Qualitative Research

Abstract: As qualitative researchers based in the United States, we theorize and ground ethical issues within our work as inherent to the continuum of methods, epistemologies, and research relationships. Through collective and transgressive reflexivity, we write as members of the Society for Qualitative Research in Psychology (SQIP) Ethics Task Force, re-imagining the American Psychological Association's (APA) Ethics Code as a resource that is inclusive of qualitative inquiry and responsive to the "evidence based" quandaries encountered in our praxis. In this article, we name the gaps in the Code that are incommensurate with social justice oriented qualitative research and shake the epistemological ground of the Code from bottom-up. We interweave our vision for a new ethics Code that foregrounds the intersubjective and reflexive nature of knowledge production, preserves dignity, attends to power relations within and outside of the research endeavor, critiques relational and epistemic distanc.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3145

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Toward Epistemological Ethics: Centering Communities and Social Justice in Qualitative Research ; volume:19 ; number:3 ; day:26 ; month:09 ; year:2018
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 19, Heft 3 (26.09.2018)

Creator
Guishard, Monique Antoinette
Halkovic, Alexis
Galletta, Anne
Li, Peiwei

DOI
10.17169/fqs-19.3.3145
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022021017184590914656
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Guishard, Monique Antoinette
  • Halkovic, Alexis
  • Galletta, Anne
  • Li, Peiwei

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