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Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: The (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matej BlazekORCiD

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The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts cannot be planned in advance, an ethics of care embedded in relationships within and beyond research settings may form conditions in which outcomes exceeding the initial expectations can be anticipated. To achieve this, we argue for questioning the distinctions between academic and non-academic collaborators, legitimising diverse forms of knowledge, action and impact in institutional policies, and for conceiving research projects from the beginning as "more-than-research" avenues.

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Author(s): Blazek M, Smith FM, Lemešová M, Hricová P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Geoforum

Year: 2015

Volume: 61

Pages: 45-55

Print publication date: 01/05/2015

Online publication date: 18/03/2015

Acceptance date: 18/02/2015

Date deposited: 05/01/2017

ISSN (print): 0016-7185

ISSN (electronic): 1872-9398

Publisher: Pergamon Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.017

DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.017

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