Anthropology and Ethics

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn

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“…They invite investigators to practice reflexivity in order to examine their relationships to structures and dynamics of injustice, both within the ethnographic process and their larger social positioning (Charmaz et al, 2017; Kincheloe et al, 2017). A critical orientation further entails “radical ethics,” ethics that are actively negotiated through reflexivity and collaboration during the entire research endeavor (Cannella and Lincoln, 2017: 172–173; Denzin and Giardina, 2016; Fluehr-Lobban, 2015; Lincoln and Guba, 1989).…”

Section: All-encompassing Institutions and Research Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research

Winfield

2022

Ethnography

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This article addresses the challenges inherent to conducting ethnography in all-encompassing institutions and presents strategies for equity-oriented research in such restrictive settings. All-encompassing institutions are organizations that have no separation between home, work, and play, with forms of surveillance, power imbalances, and control that create logistical and ethical challenges for ethnographers. Building on feminist orientations to qualitative inquiry, the author shares vignettes from her research in a military institution to introduce four strategies for ethnography in these contexts. The strategies are: (a) adopting a participant-centered approach; (b) attending to power dynamics; (c) negotiating consent and confidentiality; and (d) engaging participants in research presentation. These strategies are applicable to ethnographers across contexts looking to meaningfully engage interlocutors in research generation and presentation.

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Section: All-encompassing Institutions and Research Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research

Winfield

2022

Ethnography

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“…Instead, anthropologists understand the subject as acting within an intersubjective matrix in which “the collective and the individual are intertwined and run together” (Biehl, Good, and Kleinman 2007, 14). Accordingly, as early as Margaret Mead's (1969, 361) assertion that “anthropological research does not have subjects,” anthropologists have been advocating for collaborative research, which emphasizes researchers’ commitment to the communities they study (Fluehr‐Lobban 2012; Hodge 2013). Indeed, in its 2012 “Statement on Ethics,” the American Anthropological Association extended its concern to the “communities, identities, tangible/intangible heritage and environments” of research subjects (AAA 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, in a society in which Palestinian nationality is silenced and crushed, the study had the potential to benefit the community by providing a modicum of visibility and legitimacy (cf. Fluehr‐Lobban 2012, 109; Hodge 2013, 292). In a sense, HCs were trying to come in between the anthropologist and his Palestinian colleagues, who were willing to collaborate for the betterment of their community.…”

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Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine

Shalev

2022

American Anthropologist

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This article looks at six months of the author's repeated attempts to obtain the approval of three Helsinki Committees (HCs, Israeli hospitals' research ethics committees) to conduct ethnographic research with Palestinian physicians in Israeli hospitals.While the research was eventually approved and carried out in two of these institutions, correspondence with HC representatives, as well as evidence of their informal moves with institutions' management, reflect their perceptions of the risks the study posed. In the Israeli hospital, acknowledging Palestinian political subjectivity challenges the definition of Israeli nationhood as exclusively Jewish and contaminates the allegedly politically neutral medical sphere. These committees exerted their power to serve their institutions and state ideology. This, I argue, should not be understood as anomalous instances of negligence. I show how the committees' censorship was attuned to the Declaration of Helsinki as their guiding text and Zionism as their underlying ideology. Embedded in the powerful regimes of ethics, bureaucracy, science, and health, ethics committees employ "unarmed power" that is beyond critique. They are well-oiled "anti-politics machines," rearticulating political concerns into a depoliticized moral discourse. As such, they not only limit academic inquiry but also redefine, in political terms, the realm of the moral.

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“…The first Code of Ethics was adopted in 1967, and the issues addressed include espionage, counterinsurgencies, involvement in war-related activities, use of research data and research ethics. 12 Later, in 1992, the AAA established the Commission on Human Rights and its tasks have been manifold. 13 The list of human rights-related endeavours in which anthropologists have participated is long; it includes child rights, 14 the topic of this article.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Becoming somebody: Bissau-Guineantalibésin Senegal

Einarsdóttir

Boiro

2016

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Parents of trafficked children are mostly ignored or represented in mass media and reports published by international institution and NGOs as desperately poor, ignorant or indifferent. This article gives voice to Bissau-Guinean Fula parents who are descendants of former slaves aiming to raise their social status by sending sons to Quran schools in Senegal. No parent argued they did so because of poverty. Concerned with discrimination, they sent their favourite son abroad hoping he would 'become somebody'. At the same time, parents mentioned the importance of religious commitment, piety and serving Allah. To their outrage, global institutions and NGOs classify the practice of sending boys to Quran schools in Senegal as child trafficking. Anti-trafficking activities are ongoing, including repatriation of boys from Senegal, something seen as degrading and criminalising. Repatriation of their chosen son is seen as the worst outcome and proof of discrimination. Nonetheless, the parents are resistant and continue to send their sons to Senegal to seek knowledge and 'fight ignorance' through religious education.

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Anthropology and Ethics

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research

All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research

Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine

Becoming somebody: Bissau-Guineantalibésin Senegal

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