Quelle posture pour le chercheur en situation d’entretien dans le milieu carcéral avec des personnes dites « en grande vulnérabilité » ?

Abstract

This article is part of the biographical research whose narrative life story is the heart of his theoretical reflection. The author regularly intervenes in prison, with people in situations of great vulnerability, proposes to question the different postures of the researcher confronted with situations belonging to the sensitive area, but also to think about the place and the role it occupies in the lived experiences transmitted. Would the sensitive’s area invite the researcher to reconsider his moral sense and credibility, to question its responsibility, its legitimacy, its objectivity and finally to evaluate its capacity to see suffering without being able to reduce it, without taking defense and without taking sides for the weakest or for the institution that locks them up? Questions that are based on a qualitative research approach and that address ethical conduct and ethics in a human relationship, an established reciprocal relationship, established so that each person involved in the research interview does “what it takes” to welcome the other into or from his or her relationship to the sensitive.

Keywords

• sensitive area
• life story
• ethical conduct
• aréa of ethics
• best practice