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Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations: tensions in interview practice

Christina Sinding

Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative, chris.sinding{at}hwcn.org

Jane Aronson

McMaster University, aronsonj{at}mcmaster.ca

This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer’s presence, a line of questioning) with particular discursive and political surrounds. This conceptualization of the conditions of interviewee vulnerability prompts a revisioning of the power that researchers bring to, and exercise in, interviews. In reflecting on interactions with research participants we describe our efforts to use our power wittingly and responsibly.

Key Words: ‘active ageing’ • ethics • ‘good death’ • health system restructuring • home care • informal care • interviewing • qualitative research

Qualitative Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, 95-117 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1468794103003001770
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