ABSTRACT
In the latest edition of the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (Denzin and Lincoln 2011), Gaile Cannella and Yvonna Lincoln make the case for a critical approach to the social sciences, which ‘requires a radical ethics, an ethics that is always/already concerned about power and oppression even as it avoids constructing “power” as a new truth’ (2011, 81; emphasis in original). Referencing Spivak (1987), Cannella and Lincoln (2011) call for ethical research relations that, ‘address contemporary political and power orientations by recognising that the investigator and the investigated
(whether people, institutions, or systems) are subjects of the presence or aftermath of colonialism’ (83).
