This handbook is a much-needed and in-depth review of the distinctive set of ethical considerations which accompanies qualitative research. This is particularly crucial given the emergent, dynamic and interactional nature of most qualitative research, which too often allows little time for reflection on the important ethical responsibilities and obligations

Table of Contents

• List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Foundational Issues in Qualitative Research Ethics - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
• Part I Thick Descriptions of Qualitative Research Ethics
• Preface: Thick Descriptions of Qualitative Research Ethics - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
• 1 Values in Social Research - Martyn Hammersley
• 2 Ethics, Reflexivity and Virtue - David Carpenter
• 3 A Posthumanist Ethics of Mattering: New Materialisms and the Ethical Practice of Inquiry - Natasha S. Mauthner
• 4 Feminist Epistemologies and Ethics: Ecological Thinking, Situated Knowledges, Epistemic Responsibilities - Andrea Doucet
• 5 Ethical Imperialism? Exporting Research Ethics to the Global South - Mark Israel
• 6 Democratizing Research in Practice - Helen Kara
• Part II Qualitative Research Ethics by Technique
• Preface: Qualitative Research Ethics by Technique - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
• 7 The Ethics of Ethnography - Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson
• 8 He Said, She Said, We Said: Ethical Issues in Conducting Dyadic Interviews - Karen Lowton
• 9 Ethical Issues When Undertaking Autoethnographic Research with Families - Anita Gibbs
• 10 Between Dance and Detention: Ethical Considerations of ‘Mesearch’ in Performance - Mark Edward
• 11 Walking Interview Ethics - Penelope Kinney
• 12 Ethics and Power in Visual Research Methods - Anne Harley and Jonathan Langdon
• 13 Ethics Working in Ever-Changing Ethnographic Environments - Olivia Marcus and Shir Lerman
• Part III Ethics as Politics
• Preface: Ethics as Politics - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
• 14 Confronting Political Dilemmas in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Consent, Personal Safety and Triangulation - Jon Shefner and Zachary McKenney
• 15 Qualitative Ethics in a Positivist Frame: The Canadian Experience 1998–2014 - Igor Gontcharov
• 16 When Ethics Review Boards Get Ethnographic Research Wrong - L.L. Wynn
• 17 Reflexivity: Overcoming Mistrust between Research Ethics Committees and Researchers - Lynn Gillam and Marilys Guillemin
• 18 Moving beyond Regulatory Compliance: Building Institutional Support for Ethical Reflection in Research - Gary Allen and Mark Israel
• 19 Research Ethics Committees – What Are They Good For? - David Hunter
• Part IV Qualitative Research Ethics with Vulnerable Groups
• Preface: Qualitative Research Ethics with Vulnerable Groups - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
• 20 The Vulnerability of Vulnerability: Why Social Science Researchers Should Abandon the Doctrine of Vulnerability - Will C. van den Hoonaard
• 21 Researching Hate Crime Against Disabled People – Working Through Ethical Considerations When the ‘Personal Is Political’ - Chih Hoong Sin
• 22 Participatory Action Research with Indigenous Youth and their Communities - Linda Liebenberg, Michele Wood and Darlene Wall
• 23 Role Conflict and Questions of Rigour: Working with Community Researchers in Sexual Health - Julie Mooney-Somers and Anna Olsen
• 24 Fair Warnings: The Ethics of Ethnography with Children - Angel A. Escamilla García and Gary Alan Fine
• 25 Protecting and Empowering Research with the Vulnerable Older Person - Fiona Poland and Linda Birt
• 26 Ethics Unleashed: Developing Responsive Ethical Practice and Review for the Inclusion of Non-Human Animal Participants in Qualitative Research - Emma Tumilty, Catherine M. Smith, Peter Walker and Gareth Treharne
• 27 Paternalism and the Ethics of Researching with People Who Use Drugs - Lucy Pickering
• Part V Relational Research Ethics
• Preface: Relational Research Ethics - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
• 28 An Exception to the Rule: Journalism and Research Ethics - Donald Matheson
• 29 The Dual Imperative in Disaster Research Ethics - Dónal O'Mathúna
• 30 Ethical Issues in Insider-Outsider Research - Bridgette Toy-Cronin
• 31 Covert: The Fear and Fascination of a Methodological Pariah - David Calvey
• 32 Ethical Issues in Grounded Theory - Karin Olson
• Part VI Researching Digitally
• Preface: Researching Digitally - Elizabeth Buchanan
• 33 Research That Hurts: Ethical Considerations When Studying Vulnerable Populations Online - Camilla Granholm and Eva Svedmark
• 34 ‘What If They're Bastards?’: Ethics and the Imagining of the Other in the Study of Online Fan Cultures - Natasha Whiteman
• 35 Negotiating the Ethics of Gendered Online Spaces in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Tom McDonald, Karen Joe Laidler and Marissa Dean
• Concluding Thoughts: The Virtues of a Reflexive Qualitative Researcher - Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich