‘If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry’: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context
‘If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry’: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context
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“如果你不笑，你就会哭”：定性田野调查背景下的情感劳动、反思性和道德实践
作者：
W. McGowan
本文以Guillemin和Gillam的“程序伦理”和“实践中的伦理”之间的区别为出发点，并在最近完成的关于政治暴力和恐怖主义的博士研究项目中批判性地反思。它提供了一个研究的概述，然后提供了一些有益的小插曲，以显示如何与“在现场”从事道德决策过程是一个扩展更多的日常和世俗的推理比我们通常可能与这种典型的“敏感的研究”。正如本文的最后一节所论证的那样，正是这种日常的、世俗的伦理推理品质有时在“反身性”的正式描述中被掩盖了。希望这篇文章是有用的学者感兴趣的伦理和情感的做法，定性调查，以及那些研究严重的暴力和丧亲之痛。
This article takes Guillemin and Gillam’s distinction between ‘procedural ethics’ and ‘ethics in practice’ as a point of departure and return for reflecting critically on a recently completed doctoral research project about political violence and terrorism. It provides an overview of the study before offering some instructive vignettes to show how ethical decision-making processes engaged with ‘in the field’ were an extension of more everyday and mundane reasoning than we may typically associate with such quintessentially ‘sensitive research’. As the final section of this article argues, it is this everyday and mundane quality to ethical reasoning which is sometimes obscured in formal accounts of ‘reflexivity’. It is hoped that this article is useful for scholars interested in the ethics and emotional practices of qualitative inquiry, as well as those researching serious violence and bereavement.