But it is all thery to you but to me, who am at the point of begging even
to continue my research with no funding and as a disabled person vilified in
the press and about to have my benefits cut, it is no intellectual game, I
am at the bottom of the heap and if I am dumped who cares. I am not
privileged enough in the economy generally to be an owner of the means of
intellectual production, or for that matter to be able to take a refined
intellectual stance. I will exist so far as I can exist beyond that simply
as fodder, a lumpenproletariat in the research hierarchy, the convenient
poor and dispossessed for whom research into is no better than the gaze of
those who objectify us in the pity and charity game, so there you go, why
ought I not to be opposed to you. You do nothing for me with your
sociological gaze cos you ain't here you are somewhere else.
Society tells me I have no right to claim this high ground of speaking for
myself to be contributing to that research economy other than being the
perennial subject.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marion Hersh [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 November 2011 01:22
> To: Larry Arnold; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Celebrating resilience project
>
>
> Dear All,
> There are a lot of issues round power. as well as issues round payment.
With regards to
> payment there is not just the issue of whether, but how much. Some of the
concerns
> about payment are paternalistic e.g. that people will get involved with
risky research
> because of the money. If research is that risky, it should not be taking
place anyway.
> There are generally power differences between researchers and participants
- the fact of
> being researchers and asking the questions tend to give them more power.
This is
> reduced to some extent in more participative approaches to research, but
not totally. Is
> there any evidence that participants are more likely to bias their
responses to what they
> think the researcher wants because they are paid? Otherwise, this
assumption seems
> patronising. In general in would seem good practice to pay participants,
though the
> available funding or lack of funding may put limitations or prevent this.
>
> Relevant power issues (and there are others) include
> Disabled/non-disabled
> Income and class
> Researcher/participant
> Gender and race
> Education and access to resources.
> Marion
>
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