Reflections on ethnography, ethics and inebriation

Joseph, Janelle; Donnelly, Michele K.

doi:10.1080/14927713.2012.747277

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“…On the other hand, the potentially disinhibiting effect of drug consumption may have encouraged participants to respond more freely and openly (cf. Joseph & Donnelly, 2012 ). The online research raises ethical issues regarding anonymity in the digital age and the potential lack of informed consent ( Rodham & Gavin, 2006 ).…”

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Harm Reduction From Below

Schipstal

Mishra

Berning

et al. 2016

Contemporary Drug Problems

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This article focuses on how recreational drug users in the Netherlands and in online communities navigate the risks and reduce the harms they associate with psychoactive drug use. To do so, we examined the protective practices they invent, use, and share with their immediate peers and with larger drug experimenting communities online. The labor involved in protective practices and that which ultimately informs harm reduction from below follows three interrelated trajectories: (1) the handling and sharing of drugs to facilitate hassle-free drug use, (2) creating pleasant and friendly spaces that we highlight under the practices of drug use attunements, and (3) the seeking and sharing of information in practices to spread the good high. We focus not only on users’ concerns but also on how these concerns shape their approach to drugs, what young people do to navigate uncertainties, and how they reach out to and create different sources of knowledge to minimize adversities and to improve highs. Harm reduction from below, we argue, can best be seen in the practices of sharing around drug use and in the caring for the larger community of drug-using peers.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Harm Reduction From Below

Schipstal

Mishra

Berning

et al. 2016

Contemporary Drug Problems

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“…This issue is less clear with respect to intoxication where it has been argued that obviously intoxicated people should be deemed ineligible participants [6,7]. On the other hand, researchers employing observational methods defend the ethics of engaging in the lived experiences, and thus drug use, of people who use AOD [8–10].…”

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Is there a problem with the status quo? Debating the need for standalone ethical guidelines for research with people who use alcohol and other drugs

Olsen

Mooney-Somers

2014

Drug and Alcohol Review

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In 2011, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) initiated an inquiry to determine whether there is a need for expanded ethical guidance in the form of a discrete guidance document for alcohol and other drug (AOD) research. An issues paper was developed to frame the inquiry. AOD researchers, Human Research Ethics Committees and others were invited to discuss whether there are distinctive ethical issues facing researchers and Human Research Ethics Committees in the AOD setting. Based on the public submissions, the NHMRC recommended that no AOD research-specific guidance is required. The inquiry and the NHMRC decision were not widely publicized, and we feel there is a need for further discussion. In order to do so, we have analysed the public inquiry submissions and described the central themes. Few submissions in the inquiry explicitly agreed AOD research warrants a specific guidance framework. Most were concerned that the NHMRC issues paper unfairly targeted people who use drugs as complex research participants. The inquiry highlights tensions around research governance and ethics review boards dealing with illicit and stigmatised behaviours. While we agree that a specific guidance framework for AOD research is not needed and could potentially be harmful and restrictive, we are concerned that the wholesale rejection of a guidance framework has closed the door to much needed debate. There remains, we argue, a need for alternative strategies and tools to support ethical research, inform and streamline institutional ethics approval, and engage and protect participants.

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“…In spite of having thought through—and even presented and written about (Joseph and Donnelly, 2008, 2012)—issues related to drinking alcohol and my ethnography of a women’s flat track roller derby league, I never seriously considered including that data in my doctoral dissertation. And I did not include it.…”

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Drinking with the derby girls: Exploring the hidden ethnography in research of women’s flat track roller derby

Donnelly

2013

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper explores Blackman's concept of 'hidden ethnography' with respect to drinking alcohol by and with participants during ethnographic research of a women's flat track roller derby league. A brief review of the positive and negative consequences of drinking alcohol for the research process pays specific attention to the potential consequences for research participants and the researcher. Following this, the researcher reveals elements of the hidden ethnography of this project, and explores how drinking by and with women's flat track roller derby skaters contributed to the development of understanding and knowledge about this social world, about women's flat track roller derby as a contemporary women-only social formation, and about women onlyness.

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Reflections on ethnography, ethics and inebriation

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Harm Reduction From Below

Harm Reduction From Below

Is there a problem with the status quo? Debating the need for standalone ethical guidelines for research with people who use alcohol and other drugs

Drinking with the derby girls: Exploring the hidden ethnography in research of women’s flat track roller derby

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