Learning From and Alongside Each Other: A Humanizing Approach to Team-Based Ethnography

Abstract

Drawing from 7 years of team-based ethnographic research with Hmong communities in Wisconsin, we—a multiethnic group of Asian American women—extend Paris and Winn's (2013) concept of humanizing research. We argue that relational care among research team members is central to sustaining humanizing practices. Our collaboration demonstrates that care, dignity, and dialogic consciousness emerge not only in researcher–participant relationships but also within the collective, affective labor of doing research together.