Ethical Quandaries: Qualitative Research in a Neoliberal Age. Issue 1 (February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Esposito, Jennifer; Kaufmann, Jodi; Evans-Winters, Venus
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 11:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 116
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2018-02
• Subjects: neoliberalism -- qualitative research -- teaching qualitative research; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2018.11.1.116
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

We have witnessed our universities becoming neoliberal institutions as monetary goals surmount academic ones and knowledge becomes a commodity. As professors in a neoliberal institution, we mourn in this moment as we are forced to become skilled at negotiating the power of neoliberalism and our qualitative passion for social justice. Although this mourning manifests itself on multiple fronts, after outlining our ethics and sharing personal vignettes, we discuss the ethical tensions of teaching qualitative research, a marginalized paradigm, in this neoliberal moment.