Table Of ContentTHE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF
ETHICS IN CRITICAL RESEARCH
Edited by
Catriona Ida Macleod, Jacqueline Marx,
Phindezwa Mnyaka, Gareth J. Treharne
The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical
Research
Catriona Ida Macleod
Jacqueline Marx
Phindezwa Mnyaka
Gareth J. Treharne
Editors
The Palgrave
Handbook of Ethics in
Critical Research
Editors
Catriona Ida Macleod Jacqueline Marx
Critical Studies in Sexualities and Critical Studies in Sexualities and
Reproduction, Department of Psychology Reproduction, Department of Psychology
Rhodes University Rhodes University
Grahamstown, South Africa Grahamstown, South Africa
Phindezwa Mnyaka Gareth J. Treharne
Department of History Department of Psychology
University of the Western Cape University of Otago
Bellville, South Africa Dunedin, New Zealand
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Not My Science
Watch me as I decolonise
Undress
Seek redress
I am going to regress
Be irrational
Be subjective
Look at me
You will see
That I cannot be known
Through method
I am not based in evidence
I am not quantifiable
Theory does not drive me
I am not a man
I am dark
Not white
I will not be replicated.
You will not clone me.
I am not parsimonious
I am not generalisable therefore…
I am not valid
I am a foreigner in my own territory
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Yet, I have value,
My unique vantage point.
I will not let White, Male, Science
Cloud my lens
Block my view
So difficult to do
When most white men
Are taller than you
Thirusha Naidu
This poem was composed on 20 September 2017 at the First Pan African
Psychology Union Congress during a roundtable discussion on the Science of
Psychology in Africa and the Global South.
Acknowledgements
The idea for this handbook was born at the 9th Biennial International Society
of Critical Health Psychology Conference that was held in Grahamstown,
South Africa, in July 2015. As such, our first acknowledgement goes to the
International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), especially
members of the Executive Committee and the Conference Organising
Committee, for creating the kind of space in which innovative and critical
debates and dialogues are fostered and in which like-minded people from
across the globe may collaborate.
We thank all the chapter authors, who were willing to engage with a project
that required a deep level of reflexivity in relation to the conduct of ethical
research. All authors engaged constructively with feedback from the peer
reviewers, thereby ensuring the depth and quality of their inputs.
We thank the peer reviewers, who engaged rigorously with the chapters,
providing constructive and insightful input: Anita Padmanabhanunni, Audrey
Graham, Brigit Mirfin-Veitch, Carla Rice, Clare Harvey, Clifford van
Ommen, Elizabeth Peel, Elizabeth Thornberry, Emmanuel Mayeza, Garth
Stevens, Hlonelwa Ngqangweni, Jacob Ashdown, Jacqueline Akhurst, Jean
Hay- Smith, Jessica Rucell, Judy McKenzie, Kevin Durrheim, Kimberly
Walters, Kopano Ratele, Leslie Swartz, Lindsay Kelland, Lynley Anderson,
Lisa Saville Young, Martin Tolich, Mary van der Riet, Merran Toerien,
Monique A. Guishard, Natalie Edelman, Nokuthula Shabalala, Nolwazi
Mkhwanazi, Patti Henderson, Penny Jaffray, Rachelle Chadwick, Robin
Palmer, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Sharli Paphitis, Sisa Ngabasa, Thirusha Naidu,
Tracey Feltham-King, Werner Böhmke, and Will C. van den Hoonaard.
Wendy Jacobson, Professor Emerita of Rhodes University, South Africa,
did a wonderful job of copy-editing and indexing the chapters. Thank you,
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Wendy, for your thoroughness and willingness to work with the impossible
deadlines we set for you.
Ulandi du Plessis, Elizabeth Chitiki, and Megan Reuvers provided admin-
istrative assistance to the editors. Thank you for taking on this task and for
your efficiency in following up on necessary administrative issues.
Joanna O’Neill from Palgrave Macmillan liaised with us throughout the
process. Thank you for your support and for your patience with our delays.
Akihiro Nakayama is responsible for the wonderful cover photograph. Thank
you for working with our ideas and producing such an eye-catching
photograph.
Administrative and copy-editing support was financed by Catriona
Macleod’s SARChI Chair in Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction
(CSSR) at Rhodes University. The funding for this Chair comes from the
South African Department of Science and Technology and the National
Research Foundation. Thanks to the CSSR for this support.
Finally, each of the editors is supported by the wonderful family, partners,
and friends in our lives (John Reynolds, Liam Macleod Reynolds, Aidan
Macleod Reynolds, Renée Marx, Samuel Carrington, Jean Hay-Smith,
Mnyaka family). Thank you for listening to our ongoing discussion of the
finer points of ethics and critical research.
Contents
1 Ethics in Critical Research: Stories from the Field 1
Catriona Ida Macleod, Jacqueline Marx, Phindezwa Mnyaka, and
Gareth J. Treharne
Section 1 Encounters with Systems 15
2 Introduction: Encounters with Systems Within Which Critical
Research Is Conducted 17
Gareth J. Treharne and Jacqueline Marx
3 Ethics in Theory and Pseudo-Ethics in Practice 29
Pam Carter, Sarah Chew, and Elizabeth Sutton
4 Researching Sexual Healthcare for Women with Problematic
Drug Use: Returning to Ethical Principles in Study Processes 47
Natalie L. Edelman
5 Contesting the Nature of Young Pregnant and Mothering
Women: Critical Healthcare Nexus Research, Ethics
Committees, and Healthcare Institutions 63
Tracey Feltham-King, Yolisa Bomela, and Catriona Ida Macleod
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6 Ethics in Transdisciplinary Research: Reflections
on the Implications of ‘Science with Society’ 81
Jessica Cockburn and Georgina Cundill
7 Non-human Animals as Research Participants: Ethical Practice
in Animal Assisted Interventions and Research in Aotearoa/
New Zealand 99
Catherine M. Smith, Emma Tumilty, Peter Walker, and Gareth J.
Treharne
8 Critical Enquiry in the Context of Research- Ethics Review
Guidelines: Some Unique and Subtle Challenges 117
Will C. van den Hoonaard
Section 2 Blurring Boundaries 131
9 Introduction: Blurring Boundaries 133
Phindezwa Mnyaka and Catriona Ida Macleod
10 Blurred Researcher–Participant Boundaries in Critical
Research: Do Non-clinicians and Clinicians Experience
Similar Dual-Role Tensions? 145
Jean Hay-Smith, Melanie Brown, Lynley Anderson, and Gareth J.
Treharne
11 Blurring Boundaries Between Researcher and Participant:
The Ethical Use of a Psychoanalytically Informed Research
Interview 163
Clare Harvey
12 Bearing Witness to ‘Irreparable Harm’: Incorporating
Affective Activity as Practice into Ethics 179
Kim Barker and Catriona Ida Macleod
