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Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: the (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia
journal contribution
posted on 2015-04-17, 13:39 authored by Matej Blazek, Fiona M. Smith, Miroslava Lemesova, Petra HricovaThe paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts cannot be planned in advance, an ethics of care embedded in relationships within and beyond research settings may form conditions in which outcomes exceeding the initial expectations can be anticipated. To achieve this, we argue for questioning the distinctions between academic and non-academic collaborators, legitimising diverse forms of knowledge, action and impact in institutional policies, and for conceiving research projects from the beginning as "more-than-research" avenues.
Funding
This paper was developed with the support of the ESRC Small Knowledge Exchange Project (RES-192-22-0060).
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
GeoforumVolume
61Pages
45 - 55Citation
BLAZEK, M. ... et al., 2015. Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: the (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia. Geoforum, 61, pp.45-55.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2015Notes
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ISSN
0016-7185Publisher version
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S0016718515000536Language
- en