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Ethics and practices of re‐presentation: Witnessing self and other
Author(s) -
Crocket Kathie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1080/14733145.2013.779733
Subject(s) - reflexivity , subjectivity , presentation (obstetrics) , privilege (computing) , presentational and representational acting , narrative , context (archaeology) , sociology , research ethics , qualitative research , engineering ethics , epistemology , psychology , social science , aesthetics , political science , medicine , paleontology , biology , law , radiology , engineering , philosophy , linguistics
Context: The challenge of producing ethical representational practices is of critical interest to both practitioner‐researchers and research theorists. For practitioners becoming researchers a central ethical question may be how to manage a relational presence in writing their research, in ways that acknowledge participants, the research relationship, and a researcher's own subjectivity. Focus : The article offers examples from practitioner research to illustrate and theorise how researcher subjectivity is managed through the use of witnessing practices as a representational strategy. Witnessing practices – translated into counselling research from narrative therapy – offer researchers a strategy to take up a reflexive, relational presence in research reports. Discussion : Researcher witnessing honours the contributions of research participants as well as making visible the shaping effects of the research on a researcher's life. Through witnessing self and other, and thus declaring presence, privilege and partiality, re‐presentational ethics are made transparent.