An Anthropology of Ethics

Faubion, James D.

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“…Many other ethical issues confront ethnographers during the course of their fieldwork than those few outlined above. For more comprehensive explorations of this topic, we recommend reading The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas by Caplan (2004), A Companion to Moral Anthropology by Fassin (2015), An Anthropology of Ethics by Faubion (2011), and Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action by Lambek (2010). We do not provide solutions to thorny issues of confidentiality, consent, remuneration, risk and protection but, rather, are committed to protection of our collaborators.…”

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Introduction: Participatory Research and Ethics in Mesoamerican Fieldwork

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Rees

2020

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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This introduction explores particular ways in which participatory research is practiced in Mesoamerica by ethnographers. It provides an introduction to the history of participatory research and its interlinkages to a host of ethical concerns that are explored in greater depth in eight, reflexive ethnographic essays by anthropologists who conduct research in Guatemala and Mexico. This introduction and the ten essays in this issue, including two commentaries, present several, sometimes conflicting, discussions about the complicated processes of conducting ethnographic research in Mesoamerica and, in particular, what participatory research means in this linguistically and culturally diverse region of the world. In this introduction, key aspects of the history of participatory research are reviewed, as well as ethical issues related to consent and confidentiality in specific field sites that may conflict with the requirements of funding and academic institutions. This collection of essays aims to capture a panorama of ethnographic experiences in Mesoamerican field sites to highlight the collaborations, as well as the ethical and pragmatic dilemmas encountered in participatory research. (I) can't use names even in field notes.We can't anticipate how our representation will play out.(We have an) ethical and moral duty to promote human rights.People want money, not collaboration.We provoke dialogues with people. We can engage other publics. We are possible facilitators of dialogue between different groups of people.

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Introduction: Participatory Research and Ethics in Mesoamerican Fieldwork

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2020

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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“…schemes of virtue are ethical regimes fostering particular forms of self-conduct and visions of the good life. (Foucault et al, 1997, p. 177) Such an approach is currently seeing significant interest in the social sciences (Cremonesi et al, 2016;Faubion, 2011;Laidlaw, 2014;Ong, 2006).…”

Section: Toward a Decolonial Theory Of Legal And Intersubjective Rementioning

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Amazonian struggles for recognition

Fraser

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Since the 1988 Constitution, forest peoples of Brazilian Amazonia have been struggling for territorial recognition. Yet studies of recognition in post colonial contexts, based on cases with clear settler/indigenous distinctions, are highly critical of recognition, seeing it as a form of “neoliberal multiculturalism,” a co‐option of subaltern identities with limited emancipatory potential. I question these critiques by examining struggles for legal and intersubjective recognition of subaltern identity categories “Índio” and “Agroextractivista” and corresponding territories of the “Terra Indigena” and “Reserva Extractivista” on the Madeira and Tapajós Rivers in Brazilian Amazonia, where heterogeneous origins of forest peoples belie simple settler/indigenous distinctions. I engage a key question, the relationships of subaltern peoples with state institutions, and highlight a finding, the relevance of the state's “proximity,” often underestimated in the literature. I build a theory of decolonial recognition combining Axel Honneth's idea of recognition as love, rights and solidarity with David Scott's late‐Foucauldian reworking of Frantz Fanon. Herein, the Fanonian colonised subjectivity is shaped by the negation of love, rights and solidarity, that is to say, misrecognition. The subject requires legal and intersubjective recognition in order to positively incorporate love, rights and solidarity into their “practices of techniques of the self.” On the Tapajós, territorial struggles are more successful owing to a stronger sphere of legal recognition – the presence of state institutions – and a history of Church and union grassroots organisation, both supporting greater intersubjective recognition among forest peoples. On the Madeira, a much weaker sphere of legal recognition has resulted in a situation of intractable conflict around territorial struggles which have correspondingly less intersubjective recognition. I conclude that a theory of decolonial recognition is of considerable utility in elucidating the dynamics of subaltern emancipatory struggles for territory.

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“…To care for oneself was both a privilege and a duty that guaranteed freedom by forcing individuals to diligently make themselves their own objects of life (Foucault et al, 1997). As part of the 'ethical turn' within anthropology (Brown, 2016;Zigon, 2007), the Foucauldian approach to ethics has been conceptualized as 'an ethics of the ordinary' (Faubion, 2011;Lambek, 2010).…”

Section: Understanding Ethics Of Everyday Life Through the Organizatimentioning

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Sensorial Organization as an Ethics of Space: Digital Media in Everyday Life

Bengtsson

2018

MaC

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This article outlines an analysis of the ethical organization of digital media and social and individual space in everyday life. This is made from a perspective of an 'ethics of the ordinary', highlighting the mundane negotiations and practices conducted to maintain a 'good life' with the media. The analysis shows a sensorial organization of space is conducted in relation to social space, as well as individually. The interviewees use facilities provided by media technologies in order to organize space, as well as organize their media devices spatially in order to construct space for specific purposes, and maintain a good life. These results call for a deepened analysis of the sensorial dimensions of everyday space, in order to understand the ethical struggles of a life with digital media. It is important to include the full spectrum of sensorial experiences in our approach to everyday life and to take the sensorial experiences of ordinary media users into account in our analysis of space as part of an everyday ethics.

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An Anthropology of Ethics

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Introduction: Participatory Research and Ethics in Mesoamerican Fieldwork

Introduction: Participatory Research and Ethics in Mesoamerican Fieldwork

Amazonian struggles for recognition

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