Critical Perspectives on Research with Children: Reflexivity, Methodology, and Researcher Identity

Front Cover
Half-title
Series infromation
Crirical Perspectives on Research with Children: Reflexivity, Methodology, and Researcher Identity
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	References
1 Do No Online Harm: Balancing Safeguarding with Researchers and Participants in Online Research with Sensitive Populations
	Introduction
	‘Digital Artefact vs Digital Fingerprint’
	Plan A
	Becoming a lurker
	Focus groups
	Inspired lurking
	Unprepared ‘lurker’
	What should I do?
	Vicarious trauma?
	Signs of stress
	Stress management
	Positionality and trauma
	Recovery after research?
	Future research
	Conclusion
	References
2 The Ethical Challenges of Researching Sexting with Children and Adolescents
	Introduction
	Sexting among children and adolescents
	Gaining ethical approval: childhood and sexuality
	Conclusion
	References
3 Responding Reflexively, Relationally, and Reciprocally to Unequal Childhoods
	Introduction
	Childhood essentialism and children at the peripheries
	(Re-)imagining an ‘Indian’ childhood or orientalising a boka child?
	Research as a site for reflexivity
	A reflexive ‘turn’ on research
		The relationality of difference
	Ethics of reciprocity
	Acknowledging ‘other-ness’
	Notes
	References
4 Researching Children’s Experiences in a Conflict Zone and a Red-light Area: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in India and Kashmir1
	Introduction
	Finding the voice of children in the Indian sociological imagination
	Contextualising the research universe
		Budhwar Peth
		Indian-administered Kashmir
		Addressing reflexivity as ethics
	Reflections of an ethnographer
	Tools of research with children in sensitive contexts
		The mapping tool
	The self-portrait tool
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5 Capturing Narratives: Adopting a Reflexive Approach to Research with Disabled Young People
	Introduction
	Reflexivity as part of ethical processes
	Reflexivity as an embedded research process
	Reflexivity in research design and method
	Research as emotional work
	To publish or not to publish
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
6 Youth Social Action: Shaping Communities, Driving Change
	Introduction
	Agency, voice, and participation
	Exploring young people’s perceptions of community and participation
	Agency and ‘voice’ in practice
	Navigating the ethics of perceived inaction
	Co-production: participation as relational
	Conclusion
	References
7 A New Panorama of Child Voice in the Child Protection Context
	Introduction
	The framework
		The child–practitioner relationship
		Practitioner and organisation relationship
		Practitioner and other agencies in the field
		Practitioner and state governing bodies
		Organisations and state governing bodies
		State statutory child protection services and state/national government
		National and global policy trends
	Connected and dynamic component relationships
	Discussion
	Note
	References
8 A Bump on the Head in the Graveyard: Palimpsests of Death, Selves, Care, and Touch
	Introduction
	Setting the context for children, play, and death
	Methodology
	Vignette 1: Entering the field – children, researchers, and other personas
	Vignette 2: Losing/(re)gaining control
	Vignette 3: Talking death
	Vignette 4: A bump on the head
	Vignette 5: Exiting the field
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
9 Owning Our Mistakes: Confessions of an Unethical Researcher
	Introduction
	In the beginning
	The practical realities
	Child prostitution in Baan Nua: my findings
	Challenges and problems
	Personal impacts
	Conclusions
	References
Index