Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: The Ethics of Taking Sides
Heidi Armbruster
Chapter 1. Starting from Below: Fieldwork, Gender and Imperialism Now
Nancy Lindisfarne
Chapter 2. Arriving in Nowhere Land. Studying an Islamic Sufi Order in London
Tayfun Atay
Chapter 3. Friendships and Encounters within Left-Liberal Politics in Bangladesh
Nayanika Mookherjee
Chapter 4. Doing Fieldwork within Fear and Silences
Panagiotis Geros
Chapter 5. Memory, Ethics, Politics. Researching a Beleaguered Community
Heidi Armbruster
Chapter 6. Confessions of a Downbeat Anthropologist
Anna Lærke
Chapter 7. We Will not Integrate! Multiple Belongings, Political Activism and Anthropology in Austria
Sabine Strasser
Chapter 8. Taking Sides in the Oilfields. For a Politically Engaged Anthropology
Heike Schaumberg
Chapter 9. Ranting and Silence. The Contradictions of Writing for Activists and Academics
Jonathan Neale
Bibliography
Index
