Ethical considerations : "It's about going an extra mile with high-risk sensitive populations"-Reflections on using semi-structured interviews with male sex workers / Lesedi Mashumba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mashumba, Lesedi, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods cases.

SAGE Research methods cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.

Research.

Male prostitutes--Botswana--Research--Case studies.

Male prostitutes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023.

Summary:

From 13 November 2018 to 29 January 2019, I embarked on some fieldwork for my doctoral thesis. The thesis aimed at exploring male sex workers' experiences, attitudes, and perceptions of gender, sexuality, race, and victimization in their interactions with sex tourists in Botswana. At the time, male sex work had been flourishing under the booming sex tourism industry, and over the past decade, the tourism industry had been one of the fastest growing and largest economic sectors in Africa. Studies in other contexts confirm a strong correlation between growth in the tourism industry and an increase in sex work. While there are theoretically sound and empirically informed studies on the many forms of sex work, especially in Asia and other parts of the world, as well as studies focused on female sex work in the tourism industry, male sex work is still under-researched, and especially its occurrence in the tourism industry in Africa. This case study explores the research methodology, which utilized in-depth face-to-face semi-structured interviews with male sex workers, support groups, and the police as important players given the existence of sex work in a semi-criminalized and fuzzy legal system in Botswana. It focuses in particular on the difficulties of obtaining ethical clearance, and the strategies used during the fieldwork to ensure full protection of participants, and the impact that this can have on research findings.

Contents:

Learning Outcomes Project Overview and Context Research Design Research Practicalities Method in Action Practical Lessons Learned Conclusion Classroom Discussion Questions Multiple-Choice Quiz Questions Further Reading References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-5296-3042-8

9781529630428

OCLC:

1369932894