Abstract
“Hanging out” with one’s interlocutors generates ethnographic ways to creatively involve people in health care research. This special issue focusses on people who are difficult to engage in conventional research because they are not verbally fluent, such as people with dementia or learning disabilities, or who speak a language that the researcher does not understand. In this introduction I discuss how “Hanging out” shifts the goal-orientation of research practices toward relationships and settings. Hierarchies may be shifted to provide attractive possibilities for interlocutors to participate by doing things together with the researcher. The research practice itself becomes the object of analysis.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 707-719 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Medical Anthropology |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 8 |
Early online date | 16 Nov 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2023 |
Keywords
- Art-based research
- ethnographic research methods
- health care research
- non-verbally fluent research subjects
- participation