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Revealing and concealing secrets in research: the potential for the absent

Author(s) -

Brian Rappert

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

qualitative research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.285

H-Index - 74

eISSN - 1741-3109

pISSN - 1468-7941

DOI - 10.1177/1468794110375229

Subject(s) - secrecy , autoethnography , relation (database) , negotiation , sociology , field (mathematics) , order (exchange) , resource (disambiguation) , qualitative research , epistemology , psychology , social psychology , social science , law , political science , computer science , economics , computer network , mathematics , finance , database , pure mathematics , philosophy

publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticleQualitative research accounts are characterized by absences; absences resulting from what can not be told because it is not known and from what can not be repeated because it should not be stated. This article examines the problems associated with undertaking research in conditions of secrecy in order to ask how the missing could figure as a creative resource in our accounts of the social world. It advances an overall strategy of exemplifying the negotiation of revelation and concealment experienced by researchers within the relation between the reader and author in order to convey lived experiences. Particular attention is given to secrets and absences in relation to the sub-field of autoethnography, where much of the discussion to date has been bounded by a delimiting â\u80\u98ethics of exposureâ\u80\u99

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