Ethical and methodological responses to risks in fieldwork with deaf Ugandans
| Autor: | Goedele De Clerck, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
History Emancipation Human rights business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography General Social Sciences Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Public relations Risk factor (computing) 050701 cultural studies Democracy Financial management Politics Publishing 0602 languages and literature Sociology Ideology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Identity, Agency and Fieldwork Methodologies in Risky Environments ISBN: 9780429060793 Contemporary Social Science |
| DOI: | 10.1201/9780429060793-4 |
| Popis: | While members of marginalised communities may be motivated to participate in ethnographic research by the desire to have their stories ‘heard’/seen, find a place in history and transmit their legacy, telling and publishing these stories may also put them and the researchers at risk. This paper discusses the ethical and methodological dilemmas inherent in studies on the Ugandan deaf community’s emancipation and sustainability. A first risk factor resides in the country’s political situation, strategy planning, financial management and pressures on democracy and human rights. Other risk factors are power hierarchies and questionable ideologies on the status of Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL) (factor 2) and the sometimes-scant attention to ethics in development partnerships (factor 3). These risks directly and indirectly enter the research space, for example, when participants warn that their own and the researcher’s safety could be compromised if certain information is divulged, resulting in social iso... |
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