Methodologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies, Ethics

Some examples of my work (published and forthcoming) on methodologies, epistemologies, ontologies, and ethics are listed below.

Image “Layers of Patterns”, courtesy of Christine Martell.

Image “Layers of Patterns”, courtesy of Christine Martell.

Doucet, A. (under review) Decolonizing Family Photographs: Ecological Imaginaries and Non-Representational Ethnographies.

Doucet , A. (in press, 2017) Feminist epistemologies and ethics: Situated knowledges, epistemic responsibilities, and ethico-onto-epistemologies. In R. Iphofen and M. Tolich. Handbook of qualitative research ethics. London: Sage.

Doucet, A (in press, 2017) To understand the shore, it is not enough… to pick up an empty shell…’: Feminist Epistemologies, Ecological Thinking, and Relational Ontologies in F. Dépelteau (ed.) The Palgrave handbook of relational sociology. London: Macmillan.

Doucet, A. and Mauthner, N. (2012) “Knowing responsibly: Ethics, Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies in M. Mauthner, M. Birch, J. Jessop and T. Miller (eds.), Ethics in Qualitative Research. Second Edition. London: Sage, 123-145.

Doucet, A and Mauthner, N.S. (2012) “Emotions in/and Knowing” in Hunt, Alan, Walby, Kevin and Dale Spencer (Eds.) Emotions Matter. Toronto: UTP; 161-176

Mauthner, N.S. and Doucet, A. (2008) “‘Knowledge once divided can be hard to put together again’: an epistemological critique of collaborative and team-based research practices”. Sociology, 42(5): 955-969.

Doucet, A. (2008) “‘On the Other Side of (her) Gossamer Wall” Reflexive and Relational Knowing,” Qualitative Sociology, 31: 73-87.

Doucet, A. and Mauthner, N.S. (2008) “What can be Known and How? Narrated Subjects and the Listening Guide”. Qualitative Research, 8 (3): 399-409.

Doucet A. and Mauthner, N. S. (2007) “Feminist approaches to Qualitative Interviews” in P. Alasuutari, J. Brannen and L. Bickman (Eds.) Handbook of Social Research Methods. London: Sage; pp. 327-342.

Mauthner, N. S. and Doucet, A. (2007) “Reflexive accounts and accounts of reflexivity in qualitative data analysis” in A. E. Bryman (ed.) Qualitative Research 2. Benchmark in Social Research Methods. London: Sage.

Doucet, A. and Mauthner N. (2006) “Feminist Methodologies and Epistemologies” in C. D. Bryant and D. L. Peck (Eds.) Handbook of 21st Century Sociology (26-32). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Mauthner, N. and Doucet, A. (2003) “Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis”, Sociology 37(3); pp. 413-431.

Mauthner , N.S. and Doucet, A. (1998) “Reflections on a Voice-Centred Relational Method of Data Analysis: Analysing Maternal and Domestic Voices” in Jane Ribbens and Rosalind Edwards (eds.), Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Private Lives and Public Texts. London: Sage; pp. 119-144.

Doucet, A. (1998) Interpreting Mother-Work: Linking Ontology, Theory, Methodology and Personal Biography Canadian Woman Studies (18), pp. 52-58.

Doucet, A. (1996) “Encouraging Voices: Towards More Creative Methods for Collecting Data on Gender and Household Labour”, in Lydia Morris and Stina Lyon (eds.) Gender Relations in the Public and the Private. London: Macmillan; pp. 156-173.

For access to articles: please see my academia.ca page, my google citations page, or e-mail me: andreadoucet@mac.com

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I am a Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University and I hold the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care. Most of my research and writing has travelled along three paths: ethnographic research on meanings and daily practices of caregiving responsibilities, especially for fathers; methodological, epistemological, ethical, and ontological issues in knowing with and from narrative accounts; and an attentiveness to genealogies of concept formation, especially concepts of responsibility, embodiment, time, care and work. My book Do Men Mother? which traversed, or began to, all three of these pathways, was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. Read more...