The researcher’s erotic subjectivities: epistemological and ethical challenges

Katrien De Graeve; Valerie De Craene

doi:10.5565/rev/dag.578

Las subjetividades eróticas del investigador/a: retos epistemológicos y éticos

Autores/as

Katrien De Graeve Ghent University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6177-390X
Valerie De Craene KU Leuven. Division of Geography and Tourism. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Free University of Brussels (VUB), Cosmopolis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1820-3055

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Resumen

Este artículo pretende profundizar en la cuestión de la relevancia potencial y la importancia de incluir reflexiones sobre el deseo y la sexualidad de la persona que investiga en los resultados de su investigación. Analizamos críticamente la excepcionalización de las interacciones sexual(izada)s en la investigación: ¿cuáles son las razones por las que el contacto sexual(izado) entre la persona que investiga y las personas participantes se considera no ético o problemático, y cuáles son las consecuencias del hecho de evitar la intimidad —o la (auto)censura en relación con la discusión— en el trabajo de campo? Este debate nos lleva a defender una aproximación ética alternativa a la prescrita por los protocolos éticos institucionales. La aproximación ética que planteamos se basa en la premisa de que la producción de conocimiento nunca se da fuera de nuestros cuerpos y que la relación de investigación no es fundamentalmente diferente a ningún otro tipo de relación. Lo que proponemos es una ética relacional de la investigación que cree espacios para el debate abierto y en diálogo con otras personas sobre las consecuencias (potenciales) de nuestras acciones como investigadores/as/seres humanos en unas relaciones de asimetría de poder cambiantes.

Palabras clave

geografías de las sexualidades, reflexividad, ética de la investigación, investigador/a, subjetividad sexual

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Biografía del autor/a

Katrien De Graeve, Ghent University

Centre for Research on Culture and Gender. Department of Languages and Cultures

Valerie De Craene, KU Leuven. Division of Geography and Tourism. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Free University of Brussels (VUB), Cosmopolis

Valerie De Craene is a doctoral researcher in Social Geography affiliated to the Division of Geography and Tourism, KU Leuven (Belgium) and a researcher at the Research Policy Centre Housing affiliated to Cosmopolis, Free University Brussels (VUB, Belgium). Her main research interests include geography of gender and sexuality, the territoriality of housing and social exclusions, and Slow Science. She is also an editor of AGORA.