Social work practitioners in post-conflict Northern Ireland: Lessons from a critical ethnography
| Autor: | Melinda Williams Moore |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Social work business.industry 05 social sciences Media studies Safeguarding Public relations language.human_language 0506 political science Irish Critical ethnography Ethnography Credibility 050602 political science & public administration language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Combatant Sociology business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | International Social Work. 61:383-394 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7234 0020-8728 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0020872816644664 |
| Popis: | This article presents candid lessons learned by an ‘outsider’ conducting qualitative research in Northern Ireland over a 15-month period. Former combatant women ( N = 14) with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were interviewed using a critical ethnography framework. The findings include a description of difficulties in conducting such research in the areas of accessing hard-to-reach samples, building trust and credibility over time, having a main gatekeeper, maintaining an apolitical position, modeling non-judgmental attitudes, and at all costs safeguarding confidentiality. These lessons resonated with the core tenets of social work practice which enabled and facilitated the conduct of this study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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