En etik för arkivet?
Brink Pinto, Andrés LU
(2022)
In Scandia
88(1).
p.93-108
- Abstract
- In comparison to disciplines within the humanities and social sciences working directly with living humans, as well as in comparison to oral history, historians primarily working with archival sources lack a living discussion on ethics in connection with our methods. At the same time, archival sources that contain sensitive personal information are central in many fields – such as queer history – and the Swedish Ethical Review Authority has recently started to examine academic compliance with the Law on Ethical Review.
In relation to this and the need to find an ethical approach to my own sources, this essay is an attempt to stimulate a discussion on how historians can work with sensitive archival sources in an ethical manner. I... (More) - In comparison to disciplines within the humanities and social sciences working directly with living humans, as well as in comparison to oral history, historians primarily working with archival sources lack a living discussion on ethics in connection with our methods. At the same time, archival sources that contain sensitive personal information are central in many fields – such as queer history – and the Swedish Ethical Review Authority has recently started to examine academic compliance with the Law on Ethical Review.
In relation to this and the need to find an ethical approach to my own sources, this essay is an attempt to stimulate a discussion on how historians can work with sensitive archival sources in an ethical manner. I do so by deliberating on three ethical positions – process ethics, ethics of care and duty-based ethics – and an attempt to reason regarding their respective consequences and benefits in terms of working with archival sources. The essay ends with an argument in favour of duty-based ethics and critique as a way to construct ourselves as ethical subjects in relation to our duty as historians. (Less) - Abstract (Swedish)
- Denna artikel diskuterar arkivkällor med känslig information och behovet av olika etiska angreppssätt. Avsikten med att lyfta dessa frågor är att frambringa en diskussion om hur historiker kan arbeta med känsligt material på ett etiskt sätt. Artikeln lyfter fram främst tre begrepp: processetik, omsorgsetik och dygdetik.
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- author
- Brink Pinto, Andrés
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-05-30
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Arkiv, Processetik, Omsorgsetik, Dygdetik
- in
- Scandia
- volume
- 88
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- Stiftelsen Scandia
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85135159030
- ISSN
- 0036-5483
- DOI
- 10.47868/scandia.v88i1.24209
- project
- Panopticon in the urinal - The sexual geography of Stockholm 1944-1968
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 47c340a4-9f9d-47c4-928e-761cef03cd2e
- date added to LUP
- 2022-05-30 16:23:18
- date last changed
- 2023-07-02 04:00:24
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