Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: The (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia

Matej Blazek (Lead / Corresponding author), Fiona M. Smith, Miroslava Lemešová, Petra Hricová

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    Abstract

    The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts cannot be planned in advance, an ethics of care embedded in relationships within and beyond research settings may form conditions in which outcomes exceeding the initial expectations can be anticipated. To achieve this, we argue for questioning the distinctions between academic and non-academic collaborators, legitimising diverse forms of knowledge, action and impact in institutional policies, and for conceiving research projects from the beginning as "more-than-research" avenues.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)45-55
    Number of pages11
    JournalGeoforum
    Volume61
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2015

    Keywords

    • Care
    • Ethics of care
    • Gender
    • Impact
    • Participatory video
    • Young people

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Sociology and Political Science

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