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R E - S E A R C H I N G M A R G I N S RE-SEARCHING MARGINS ETHICS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND EDUCATION Fida Sanjakdar, Gabrielle Fletcher, Amanda Keddie, and Ben Whitburn Re-searching Margins Identity, power, and positionality play crucial roles in designing and implement- ing research critically and ethically across marginalized cultures and communi- ties. Through four unique case studies, this book highlights the dilemmas faced by researchers in the field of education, demonstrating how they grapple with the ethics of research and with their role in the process. Re-searching Margins: Ethics, Social Justice and Education attends to research in four specific marginalized communities, whilst also engaging in a wider dialogue about the complex theories, methodologies and practices of ethical research in communities of difference. This book examines ethical research with cultures and communities as an exchange in which both the researcher and the researched bring complex contextual and biographical factors shaped by their histories, identities, and experiences. Drawing on the lives and research of four renowned scholars, this book will be of interest to researchers and policy makers in education who seek to engage ethically and justly with marginalized communities. Fida Sanjakdar—Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Gabrielle Fletcher—Professor in Indigenous Studies and the Director of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute at Deakin University, Australia. Amanda Keddie—Research Professor at Deakin University, Australia. Ben Whitburn—Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at Deakin University, Australia. Re-searching Margins Ethics, Social Justice, and Education Fida Sanjakdar, Gabrielle Fletcher, Amanda Keddie, and Ben Whitburn First published 2022 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 Fida Sanjakdar, Gabrielle Fletcher, Amanda Keddie, and Ben Whitburn The right of Fida Sanjakdar, Gabrielle Fletcher, Amanda Keddie, and Ben Whitburn to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 9780367364588 (hbk) ISBN: 9781032202112 (pbk) ISBN: 9780429346286 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9780429346286 Typeset in Galliard by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. We dedicate this book to qualitative researchers, from novice to seasoned alike, whose intent is to engage ethically with marginalized communities and to disrupt ongoing conditions of their exclusion. In recognition that this is not a simple undertaking, a community of researchers must remain always open to challenging dogmatic ways of valuing, thinking, and doing. We invite you to pick the volume up, read, reflect, deliberate, and apply the principles therein to your own research design for engaging affirmative ethics of difference. Contents List of figure xi Foreword by Michalinos Zembylas xii About the editors xv 1 Re-searching margins: An introduction 1 FIDA SANJAKDAR Research unease 1 The story behind the stories 1 What is this book about? 3 Doing ethical research differently: Educational research as an epistemic and socially just project 3 Reflection and reflexivity 5 Storying our framework: Framing our story 5 Research narratives 6 Critical tales of research ethics 6 Re-searching with/in the margins 10 The search for ethical and socially just research 10 Ethics in research: Researching ethically 12 Learning from the margins 12 Research ethics: Perspectives and positions 13 Toward ethical research: Principles of research design 15 A final note 19 2 Select literature: Re-view|Re-new 25 GABRIELLE FLETCHER AND BEN WHITBURN Researching difficult knowledge 25 Researching margins: Drawing difficult knowledge towards knowing and being 27 Epistemologies of otherness 28 Re-searching the difficult—ontology and the emerging axiological core 30 Understanding the difficulty of ‘Difficult’ 31 viii Contents Emancipation for ‘Other’ knowledge—theories to reclaim | insurgent difference 32 Ontology and messiness 34 ‘New-Old’: Indigenous stand-point and Indigenous relationality 37 Research and researcher subjectivities 40 A note on holding space 42 A closer examination 43 Conclusion 45 3 Research narrative 1: Islam, Muslim communities, sexuality education and schooling: A delicate balancing act 51 FIDA SANJAKDAR Ideals adrift 51 Sexuality education: Interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, critical 53 Going solo: Research tensions from within 55 Towards responsive and responsible research ethics with and for the Australian Muslim community 59 Ethical research with Muslim communities: A delicate balancing act 61 Siffa: Ethics of character 63 Sulook: Ethics of attitude 64 Akhlaq: Ethics of conduct 67 Final thoughts 69 4 Research narrative 2: A story/ing of ethics—navigating connection, obligation and mess as re-invention 75 GABRIELLE FLETCHER Introduction 75 Preamble—a note on chapter structure 77 Cultural self: Positioning and research project 78 Ethics of connection 80 Ethics of country|country as ethics: Relational and connected 83 Bawaka—country co-authoring and co-becoming 83 Indigenous storying and reflexivity 85 Researcher self: Ways through—examining methodological fault lines/temporalities 86 Indigenist research approach 87 Indigenous research—decolonization 88 Further tensions of research—intimacies 89 The anxious Indigenous research(er) 90 Life story—representational crisis 92 Contents ix Privileging voice 93 Taming field—working out 94 A note on ethical management of (Personal) experience 96 (in) Conclusions 97 5 Research narrative 3: A feminist approach to research ethics: How does a white, atheist, feminist engage in research with Muslim women? 103 AMANDA KEDDIE A feminist approach to research ethics 104 From what position do I speak in my research with Muslim women? 108 The project 109 Ethical processes 110 Ethical challenges 112 Concluding discussion 116 6 Research narrative 4: Ethical research in disability studies in education 121 BEN WHITBURN Conceptualizing disability with the social model 124 Aligning ethical disability research with the social model 125 Doing ethical research in disability studies 126 Rethinking ethics and power 129 Orientating disability research towards an ethic of relationality 132 Disrupting knowledge with theoretically oriented research 136 Conclusion 137 7 Working towards ethical research: A discussion 142 FIDA SANJAKDAR Ethics of the self: Ontological pre- occupations and refutations 143 Insider/Outsider 144 Positionality: Personal and political 145 Ethics of the community: Epistemological appraisals and evaluations 148 Epistemology as social, political, and communal 149 Epistemology as response to a socio-political zeitgeist 151 Epistemology and care 152 Ethics of research value: Axiological attractions and reactions 155 Axiological ethical frameworks: Departures and new beginnings 156 Positionality and axiological ethical considerations 158 Final thoughts 160
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