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Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions

Careful Engagements in Healthcare, Museums, Design and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Doris Lydahl

    1. Dept of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  2. Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen

    1. Faculty for Health and Social Science Centre for Health and Technology, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Drammen, Norway

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  • Deals with interventionist research from the perspective of care
  • Discusses engagement and interventionist research in science and technology studies
  • Brings together an impressive team of scholars on the crucial issue of researcher engagement

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Doing Engagements and Interventions with Care

    • Doris Lydahl, Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
    Pages 1-16

  3. Crafting and Configuring Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Project Engagement Technologies and Their Role in Shaping Conditions for Engagement and Care in Participatory Design Projects

      • Marie Ertner, Signe Yndigegn, Giacomo Poderi, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Helena Karasti
      Pages 19-34

    3. Mapping Careful Engagement: From Reflexivity to Response-Ability

      • Suvi Pihkala, Helena Karasti
      Pages 35-49

    4. Composing Telehealth: Drawing Actors Together to Enact New Relations

      • Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen, Paul Duguid
      Pages 51-67

    5. To Care for the Possible: Configuring Care in the Teledialogue Project

      • Peter Danholt, Lars Bo Andersen, Peter Lauritsen
      Pages 69-81

    6. Researching Alongside: Engagements Inside and Outside the Academic Domain—A Look Back at Participatory Research on Mutual Aid

      • Myriam Winance, Marc Bessin, Claire Ribrault
      Pages 83-97

    7. Fostering Inclusive Technologies: Being Alongside Care in the Workplace

      • Mike Grijseels, Barbara Regeer, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
      Pages 99-113

  4. Frictions and Troubles in Careful Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Caring in Precarious Times: Engagement as a Situated Discreet Practice

      • Cíntia Engel, Helena Fietz
      Pages 117-128

    3. Encouraging Care and Allowing Space: On the Aftermath of Careful Engagement

      • Doris Lydahl
      Pages 129-142

    4. Into a Worm(w)hole: Troubling Careful Engagements at the Museum and beyond

      • Martin Grünfeld
      Pages 143-155

    5. Careful STS Interventions in Transdisciplinary Environmental Research

      • Catharina Landström
      Pages 157-170

    6. Caring for Methods: ‘Care-Ful Method Practice’ through Methodography

      • Julie Sascia Mewes, Ingmar Lippert
      Pages 171-186

  5. Affects in Care and Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Practicing Care-as-Affect and Engagement-as-Critique: Careful Engagement in Socio-Technical Integration Research and Video-Reflexive Ethnography

      • Mareike Smolka, Jessica Mesman
      Pages 189-207

    3. Enactments of Evidence-Basing: Integrating Layers of Care

      • Isabella Pistone
      Pages 209-223

    4. Caring for the Bureaucracy

      • Ask Greve Johansen
      Pages 225-239

  6. Engaging the Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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About this book

This book develops an understanding of researchers' engagements with their subjects as a generative mode of knowledge production that takes place between researchers and their research fields. It promotes the idea that rather than value neutrality, caring may be helpful when a researcher makes suggestions for improvement and constructs interventions. The authors reflect on questions such as how researchers take can sides without taking a fundamental principle of action for granted. What tensions and obstacles do researchers meet while they strive to engage carefully? How do careful engagements affect academic work and output? What inequalities are produced especially when there is funding involved in the research? The contributions discuss a range of topics including responsibility (and response-ability), collaboration, proximity, ethics, bodily entanglements, values, and affective attachments in social research. The book brings together an impressive team of international researchers from different disciplines to nuance the discussion and provides a rich collection of empirical studies from healthcare, urban planning, environmental science, participatory design, and museums, among others. 

This is a very topical volume for all social and behavioural scientists engaging in research,  particularly those engaged in ethnographic research.    

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Doris Lydahl

  • Faculty for Health and Social Science Centre for Health and Technology, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Drammen, Norway

    Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen

About the editors

Doris Lydahl, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, Sweden. She has published in international journals such as Sociology of Health and Illness and Qualitative Research. She has been awarded a number of research grants. Doris was awarded The Torgny T. Segerstedt prize for best article in Sociologisk Forskning in 2017. Her research focuses on when healthcare policy meets practice and on everyday life and routine work as important locations where politics, science and technology meet and enact their normativities.


Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen is a Professor of Health, Learning and Technology at The University of South-eastern Norway. He is a certified psychologist and specialist in work and organizational psychology. He has published extensively in international journals like Sociology of Health and Illness, Journal of Workplace Learningand Studies in Continuing Learning. He has edited several books and he was awarded several research grants. His research focuses on implications in healthcare of technological arrangements aiming to empower users, qualify professional work and streamline caring through involvement and standardization.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions

  • Book Subtitle: Careful Engagements in Healthcare, Museums, Design and Beyond

  • Editors: Doris Lydahl, Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44119-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44118-9Published: 03 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44121-9Due: 05 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44119-6Published: 02 February 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 301

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Sociology of Work, Research Skills, Medical Sociology, Medical Sociology

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