TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities
T2 - The (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia
AU - Blazek, Matej
AU - Smith, Fiona M.
AU - Lemešová, Miroslava
AU - Hricová, Petra
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Care
KW - Ethics of care
KW - Gender
KW - Impact
KW - Participatory video
KW - Young people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84924352477&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.017
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924352477
SN - 0016-7185
VL - 61
SP - 45
EP - 55
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
ER -