Taking Sides : : Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology / / ed. by Heidi Armbruster, Anna Lærke.

• MitwirkendeR: Armbruster, Heidi,; Atay, Tayfun,; Geros, Panagiotis,; Lindisfarne, Nancy,; Lærke, Anna,; Mookherjee, Nayanika,; Neale, Jonathan,; Schaumberg, Heike,; Strasser, Sabine,
• HerausgeberIn: Armbruster, Heidi,; Lærke, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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, which touches on issues of vital significance to social scientists and activists in general.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction THE ETHICS OF TAKING SIDES -- Chapter 1 STARTING FROM BELOW: FIELDWORK, GENDER AND IMPERIALISM NOW -- Chapter 2 ARRIVING IN NOWHERE LAND: STUDYING AN ISLAMIC SUFI ORDER IN LONDON -- Chapter 3 FRIENDSHIPS AND ENCOUNTERS ON THE POLITICAL LEFT IN BANGLADESH -- Chapter 4 DOING FIELDWORK WITHIN FEAR AND SILENCES -- Chapter 5 MEMORY, ETHICS, POLITICS: RESEARCHING A BELEAGUERED COMMUNITY -- Chapter 6 CONFESSIONS OF A DOWNBEAT ANTHROPOLOGIST -- Chapter 7 WE WILL NOT INTEGRATE! MULTIPLE BELONGINGS, POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN AUSTRIA -- Chapter 8 TAKING SIDES IN THE OILFIELDS: FOR A POLITICALLY ENGAGED ANTHROPOLOGY -- Chapter 9 RANTING AND SILENCE: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF WRITING FOR ACTIVISTS AND ACADEMICS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX