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

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 eng...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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