Geographical Research with 'Vulnerable Groups': Re-Examining Methodological and Ethical Process

ISBN-13: 9780367592820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Nadia Von Benzon; Lorraine Van Blerk

Opis

This book explores a variety of geographical and social contexts, considering challenges to undertaking empowering research and conceptual and practical means of addressing power imbalances for effective research outcomes. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Social & Cultural Geography.

Spis treści

1.Research relationships and responsibilities: ‘Doing’ research with ‘vulnerable’ participants: introduction to the special edition
Nadia von Benzon and Lorraine van Blerk

2.Relational vulnerability and the research process with former prisoners in Athens, Georgia (USA)
Matthew L. Mitchelson

3. Researching migration and enforcement in obscured places: practical, ethical and methodological challenges to fieldwork
Pauline Maillet, Alison Mountz and Keegan Williams

4. Civil society activists and vulnerability in South India: the relational politics of life history methods and development research
Matt Baillie Smith and Katy Jenkins

5. Being patient, being vulnerable: exploring experiences of general practice waiting rooms through elicited drawings Kyle Eggleton, Robin Kearns and Pat Neuwelt

6. The ethnographic novel as activist mode of existence: translating the field with homeless people and beyond
Michele Lancione

7. Residential ethnography, mixed loyalties, and religious power: ethical dilemmas in faith-based addiction treatment Andrew P. J. W. Williams

8. Confessions of an inadequate researcher: space and supervision in research with learning disabled children
Nadia von Benzon

O autorze

Nadia von Benzon is a lecturer in human geography at Lancaster University, UK. She teaches and researches social geography and qualitative methods, with a particular interest in issues of marginalisation and difference. Specific research interests include childhood, disability, health and wellness and 'otherness'.

Lorraine van Blerk is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Dundee, UK. She has conducted research with marginalised young people including street-connected children and youth in Sub-Saharan Africa, young refugees in Uganda and Jordan as well as children living in poverty across a diverse range of contexts.