Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I What Is Sexual Development?
- Part II How Do We Study Sexual Development?
- 14 Critical Methods for Studying Adolescent Sexuality
- 15 Loving Possibilities in Studies of Sexuality Education and Youth
- 16 Difficulties in the Study, Research, and Pedagogy of Sexuality
- 17 Numbers and Stories
- 18 Doing It: Participatory Visual Methodologies and Youth Sexuality Research
- 19 Research under Surveillance
- Part III Media, Family, Education
- Index
- References
19 - Research under Surveillance
Sexuality and Gender-Based Research with Children in South Africa
from Part II - How Do We Study Sexual Development?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I What Is Sexual Development?
- Part II How Do We Study Sexual Development?
- 14 Critical Methods for Studying Adolescent Sexuality
- 15 Loving Possibilities in Studies of Sexuality Education and Youth
- 16 Difficulties in the Study, Research, and Pedagogy of Sexuality
- 17 Numbers and Stories
- 18 Doing It: Participatory Visual Methodologies and Youth Sexuality Research
- 19 Research under Surveillance
- Part III Media, Family, Education
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, the author draws examples from her own experiences with various institutional review boards to demonstrate how pervasive discourses about children's innocence work to limit the kind of inquiry that is possible about children's sexuality. The author describes the barriers from university ethical review panels, school board review panels, and social media commenters to her research about children and youths’ sexuality. Drawing on Foucault's theories about surveillance and Bentham's panopticon, the author argues that institutional review boards contribute to the construction of the child subject as innocent, passive, and susceptible to corruption, and moreover, that they place the researcher under suspicion as an agent of corruption.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual DevelopmentChildhood and Adolescence, pp. 373 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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