Techne Doctoral Training and Development Workshop: Navigating Ethics and Social Justice in Research
Panel: 'Accountability and Voice' + roundtable discussion
Abstract: Based on doctoral fieldwork in the UK women’s spirituality ‘Goddess movement’, this talk will explore the politics of, and tensions between, conducting fieldwork in a predominantly white women’s movement, and analysing ethnographic and interview data through a postcolonial, feminist of colour lens. Key to understanding this process is a conceptualisation of voice and ethical accountability that places research participant narratives within a larger political and intersectional tapestry. This reflexive, social justice-informed approach to ethnography is attentive to complex power dynamics, and centres the politics of difference in order to challenge epistemic violence and inequality in society and in the academy.