Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research With Intimate Others

作者: Carolyn Ellis

DOI: 10.1177/1077800406294947

关键词: AutoethnographyInterpersonal communicationSociologyQualitative researchAestheticsEthnographyNarrativeEpistemologyRelational ethicsEthical issuesResearch studies

摘要: This article focuses on relational ethics in research with intimate others. Relational requires researchers to act from our hearts and minds, acknowledge interpersonal bonds others, take responsibility for actions their consequences. Calling her own studies, the author examines ethnographies which are friends or become participants over course of projects. Then she autoethnographic narratives include others stories focusing experience. Considering ethical responsibilities identifiable discusses writing about those who alive have died. She then reflects ways co-constructed autoethnographies circumvent some issues traditional qualitative studies unfamiliar yet avoid concerns The last section presents advice long write a...