The intimate insider: negotiating the ethics of friendship when doing insider research
The intimate insider: negotiating the ethics of friendship when doing insider research
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DOI：
10.1177/1468794110384447
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Taylor, Jodie
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作者：
Taylor, Jodie
与他们希望考察的文化有一定程度接近的民族志学者青睐文化参与者，作为内部研究员，这在整个人文学科中已经变得相对常见。现在有大量关于这方面的方法论文献，强调了进行内部研究的优势和一些困境。这篇文献并不是详尽的，因为仍然有内幕研究的元素仍然不发达，比如一个人如何在这种背景下谈判之前建立的友谊和亲密关系。的确，这种谈判带来的好处和困境是什么？根据现有的田野友谊的学术描述和作者作为局内人研究酷儿文化的经验，本文结合作者的研究领域和更广泛的社会研究范式来讨论这些问题。随后，它认为，虽然密切地进入一个领域确实提供了显著的优势，但它也重塑了研究人员在她自己的文化和其中的那些文化中的角色和经历。
Favoured by ethnographers with some degree of closeness to the culture they wish to examine, the cultural participant as insider researcher has become relatively commonplace across the humanities. A large body of methodological literature now exists on this, highlighting the advantages and some of the dilemmas of conducting insider research. This literature is not exhaustive, as there remain elements of insider research still underdeveloped, such as how one goes about negotiating previously established friendships and intimate relationships in this context. Indeed, what are the benefits and dilemmas engendered by such negotiations? Drawing on existing scholarly accounts of field-based friendship and the author's experiences of researching queer culture as an insider, this article addresses these questions in relation to the author's field of inquiry and to social research paradigms more broadly. Subsequently, it argues that while being intimately inside one's field does offer significant advantages, it also reshapes the researcher's role in and experiences of her own culture and those within it.