%0 Journal Article
%T The ¡®problem¡¯ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics
%A Kirsten Bell
%J Ethnography
%@ 1741-2714
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1466138118807236
%X Perhaps the most unique feature of ethnographic fieldwork is the distinctive form of relationality it entails, where the ethnographer's identity as a researcher is not fixed in the way typical of most other forms of research. In this paper, I explore how this ¡®undesigned relationality¡¯ is understood, both in procedural ethics frameworks and by the different disciplines that have come to claim a stake in the ¡®method¡¯ itself. Demonstrating that the ethical issues it entails are primarily conceptualized via the lens of the ¡®dual role¡¯, I use this as a means of exploring the ideal relationship between researcher and subject that procedural ethics frameworks are premised upon. I go on to explore the epistemological differences in ways that ethnographers themselves understand and respond to the multiple forms of relationality that characterize fieldwork and the challenge this poses to the possibility of a pan-disciplinary consensus on ethnographic research ethics
%K ethnography
%K research ethics
%K dual roles
%K disciplinarity
%K relationality
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1466138118807236