| Description |
ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. The Ethics of Taking Sides / Heidi Armbruster -- 1. Starting from Below: Fieldwork, Gender and Imperialism Now / Nancy Lindisfarne -- 2. Arriving in Nowhere Land: Studying an Islamic Sufi Order in London / Tayfun Atay -- 3. Friendships and Encounters on the Political Left in Bangladesh / Nayanika Mookherjee -- 4. Doing Fieldwork within Fear and Silences / Panagiotis Geros -- 5. Memory, Ethics, Politics: Researching a Beleaguered Community / Heidi Armbruster -- 6. Confessions of a Downbeat Anthropologist / Anna Laerke -- 7. We Will Not Integrate! Multiple Belongings, Political Activism and Anthropology in Austria / Sabine Strasser -- 8. Taking Sides in the Oilfields: For a Politically Engaged Anthropology / Heike Schaumberg -- 9. Ranting and Silence: The Contradictions of Writing for Activists and Academics / Jonathan Neale |
| Summary |
"Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged with contemporary global movements for social justice and peace, reflects their efforts in trying to integrate their scholarly pursuits with their understanding of social science, politics and ethics, and what political commitment means in practice and in fieldwork. This is a book of argument and analysis, written with passion, clarity and intellectual sophistication, touching on issues of vital significance to social scientists and activists."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropological ethics.
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Anthropology -- Research.
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
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| Author |
Armbruster, Heidi.
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Lærke, Anna, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2008031178 |
| ISBN |
9781845454210 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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