In this article, we propose a distinctive critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics in ‘collaborative, democratic and transformative’ research. Underpinning the approach is the view that the buzzwords of ‘collaboration’ and ‘co-creation/co-production’ may signify equitable, symmetrical power relations and, as a result, romanticise collaborative research as straightforward processes of inclusion. The approach integrates critical, reflexive analysis of the play of power in the ‘with’ in ‘research with, not on, people’ and the ‘co’ in ‘co-creating knowledge’ into the ongoing collaborative research process. As a main method for critical, reflexive analysis, the approach uses ‘thinking with’ autoethnography. In the article, we illustrate the approach by showing how we ‘think with’ autoethnographic texts to respond to discomfort and analyse the tensions in the co-constitution of knowledge and subjectivities in the preliminary phase of a collaborative, participatory research project on dance for people with Parkinson’s disease and their spouses.

在本文中，我们针对“协作、民主和变革”研究中的关系伦理提出了一种独特的批判性、反思性方法。支持这种方法的观点是，“合作”和“共同创造/共同生产”这两个流行词可能意味着公平、对称的权力关系，因此，将合作研究浪漫化为直接的包容过程。该方法将对“与人一起研究”中“与人一起研究”和“共同创造知识”中的“合作”中的权力发挥的批判性反思性分析整合到正在进行的合作研究过程中。作为批判性、反思性分析的主要方法，该方法使用“思考与”自我民族志。在文章中，