Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

RaulPacheco-Vega¹ 

关键词: informality;    solid waste;    governance;    Latin America;    ethnography;    research methods;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406918790653

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Understanding the unique challenges facing vulnerable communities necessitates a scholarly approach that is profoundly embedded in the ethnographic tradition. Undertaking ethnographies of communities and populations facing huge degrees of inequality and abject poverty asks of the researcher to be able to think hard about issues of positionality (what are our multiple subjectivities as insider/outsider, knowledge holder/learner, and so on when interacting with vulnerable subjects, and how does this influence the research?), issues of engagement versus exploitation (how can we meaningfully incentivize participation in our studies without being coercive/extractive, and can we expect vulnerable subjects to become deeply in research design/data collection, and so on when they are so overburdened already?), and representation (what are the ethics of representing violence, racism, and sexism as expressed by vulnerable respondents? What about the pictures we take and the stories we tell?). Through the discussion ...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC