Ahmad Ayesha
St Georges University of London, Institute for Medical and Biomedical Education, London, United Kingdom.
Bioethics. 2019 Oct;33(8):908-913. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12667.
This article reflects on the challenges of developing academic research that is undertaken to create social change. I describe the ways that my research has been generated and guided by activism. Even though the descriptor of my research interests is generally gender-based violence and mental health, my research is situated within an ongoing political discourse that fundamentally opposes and normatively challenges ideologies such as those implemented at a governmental level during the Taliban regime in Afghanistan that continue to have power over Afghan women's lives. I critique the emergence of two research projects that work with women survivors of violence and develop trauma therapeutic interventions using traditional storytelling. My positionality as a woman of Muslim origin and an academic in the U.K. resulted in inescapable juxtapositions and the necessary blurring of the boundaries between personal and professional viewpoints as well as highlighting the potency of traumatic stories in contexts of conflict, oppression, silencing and marginalization. I go on to explain why I have a moral obligation as an ethicist working in global health, with resources and expertise, to systematically develop my research questions and objectives in accordance with the end-goal of tackling and deconstructing harmful ideologies and practices towards women and girls in societies marred by the violent complexities of national and international conflicts.
本文反思了开展旨在推动社会变革的学术研究所面临的挑战。我描述了我的研究是如何由行动主义所激发和引导的。尽管我研究兴趣的描述通常是基于性别的暴力和心理健康，但我的研究处于一种持续的政治话语之中，这种话语从根本上反对并规范性地挑战诸如阿富汗塔利班政权时期在政府层面实施的那些意识形态，这些意识形态仍然对阿富汗妇女的生活有着影响力。我批评了两个与暴力女性幸存者合作并利用传统叙事方式开展创伤治疗干预的研究项目。我作为一名来自穆斯林家庭的女性以及英国学者的身份，导致了不可避免的并置情况，以及个人观点与专业观点之间界限的必要模糊，同时也凸显了创伤故事在冲突、压迫、沉默和边缘化背景下的影响力。我接着解释为什么作为一名在全球健康领域工作的伦理学家，凭借资源和专业知识，我有道义上的责任根据应对和解构在因国家和国际冲突的暴力复杂性而受损的社会中针对妇女和女孩的有害意识形态及做法这一最终目标，系统地制定我的研究问题和目标。
