Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-421-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armbruster, Heidi

Lærke, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lærke, Anna
Anna Lærke holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from SOAS, University of London. She is a Research Fellow at The Open University and independent evaluator of Children's Fund services in Milton Keynes.

Armbruster, Heidi
Heidi Armbruster holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from SOAS in London. She is a lecturer in German and Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton.

Heidi Armbruster holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from SOAS in London. She is a lecturer in German and Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton.