Towards a relational ethics: Rethinking ethics, agency and dependency in research with children and youth

被引:26
作者
Meloni, Francesca [1 ]
Vanthuyne, Karine [2 ]
Rousseau, Cecile [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 2ER, England
[2] Univ Ottawa, Anthropol, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
[3] McGill Univ, Psychiat, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T5, Canada
基金
加拿大健康研究院;
关键词
Agency; anthropology; children; dependency; ethics; power; reflexivity; voice; vulnerability; youth; ANTHROPOLOGY; VOICES;
D O I
10.1177/1463499614565945
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
While anthropologists have reflected on ethics and power since the late 1960s, the specific dilemmas that arise in research conducted with children and youth have scarcely been addressed. Nevertheless, critical anthropology's reflections on power relations and reflexivity can valuably contribute to the interdisciplinary debate in the field of childhood studies, by complexifying categories of voice, dependency and agency, which are often taken for granted in the ethical conversation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with undocumented youth in Montreal, this article argues for the importance of a critical understanding of childhood within a wider context of interdependence, and consequently, for a redefinition of ethics as a reflexive and relational space of intersubjectivity.
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页码:106 / 123
页数:18
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