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Below the surface of everyday care (Part II): Working with the underwater screen in the analysis of research on interaction between lvb youth and their caregivers
In our qualitative research project we look at the everyday interaction between young people with a mild intellectual disability and their caregivers, and we are interested in the institutional impact on the everyday dealings. We have developed an analysis tool that helps identify these institutional influences. In addition, we have used the research methodology Institutional Ethnography. This tool also offers opportunities for other areas of research, because it sensitizes the researchers for the ruling relations that shape the everyday interaction between people. In Part 1 of this article (KWALON 2015, 3), we describe the development of our underwater screen. In this article (Part 2), we discuss the operation of the instrument.

Informed consent in ethnographic research practice. Deep waters between macro ethical regulation and micro ethical fieldwork dilemmas
Informed consent in ethnographic research practice. Deep waters between macro ethical regulation and micro ethical fieldwork dilemmas
Drawing on my experiences of nine months of ethnographical fieldwork in an international matchmaking agency in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), I show how the negotiation of 'informed consent' in practice differs from 'informed consent' procedures of universities' and research funds' ethical review boards. Evidence in my case study contributes to existing debates that question the applicability in ethnography of consent rituals that are common in (bio)medical and psychological sciences. These 'informed consent' protocols have been criticized to be insufficiently empirically grounded in the ethnographical fieldwork practice. My tale from the field offers empirical evidence for a further conceptual refinement of a process-based approach to consent negotiations. I both provide recommendations for an adaptation of ethical regulations on a macro level and for a more reflexive consent negotiation in the situated ethnographic fieldwork practice.

Roy Gigengack (2017a en b) heeft veel waardering voor het boek Doing Qualitative Research: The Craft of Naturalistic Inquiry van Joost Beuving en Geert de Vries (2015). Maar hij heeft ook kritiek. Een van die kritieken is dat de auteurs ten onrechte alle vormen van kwalitatief onderzoek naturalistisch noemen. Deze kritiek is terecht. In het boek van Beuving & De Vries staat: 'Naturalistic research is qualitative research by ordinary means into everyday situations, aiming to disturb these situations as little as possible. (…) As a craft, naturalistic inquiry may be considered the artisanal core of qualitative research and hence of ethnography and all the other varieties of qualitative research' (p. 19). Gewone middelen zijn onder meer: kijken, praten, luisteren, samen eten, uitgaan en ook verzamelen van documenten, maar dan alleen bestaande documenten (extant of existing documents), denk ik. Zo weinig mogelijk verstoren houdt immers in dat de onderzoeker geen documenten laat maken speciaal voor het onderzoek; dus geen uitgelokte documenten (elicited of solicited documents). In naturalistisch onderzoek past geen manipulatie. Een naturalistisch onderzoek is 'an unobtrusive strategy' (p. 16).