met with complaints of exclusion from academic and policy debates ( Omata 2019 ). Moving Forward The importance of researchers’ reflexivity and research ethics has been one of the main contributions of feminists and other critical geographers
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Lessons from Refugees
Research Ethics in the Context of Resettlement in South America
Marcia Vera Espinoza
Sarah B. Rodriguez
of the course, after spending several weeks considering global ethical research codes, in particular the Nuremberg Code – the first international code of medical research ethics created in 1946 in response to the horrors of the science conducted in
Lest We Forget (Matter)
Posthumanism, Memory, and Exclusion
Matthew Howard
effect a particular understanding of the situatedness, and precarity, of memory and its ability to change as a condition of human political existence. I want to conclude with a note on research ethics, on the basis of Shaunnagh Dorsett and Shaun McVeigh
Comparative Colonialism and Collections-Based Archaeological Research
Dig Less, Catalog More
Julia A. King
ABSTRACT
Legacy collections are an increasingly valued source of information for researchers interested in the study and interpretation of colonialism in the Chesapeake Bay region of North America. Through the reexamination of 34 archaeological collections ranging in date from 1500 through 1720, researchers, including the author, have been able to document interactions among Europeans, Africans, and indigenous people in this part of the early modern Atlantic. We could do this only because we turned to existing collections; no single site could reveal this complex story. This article summarizes the major findings from this work and describes the pleasures and challenges of comparative analysis using existing collections. Collections-based research can also be used to inform fieldwork, so the legacy collections of tomorrow are in as good shape as possible. Indeed, collections-based work reveals the need for a critical dialogue concerning the methods, methodology, and ethics of both collections and field-based research.
Home Away from Home
Ethnography of an EU Erasmus+ Project
Terry Lamb and Danila Mayer
Researchers participating in the development and training week of one of the European Union’s Erasmus+ projects come forwards in this contribution and share their insights. Youth engaged in integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers were to be trained, their approaches made visible and their networking strengthened in a two-year project that included a seven-days get-together in Croatia. Further activities included ample desk research of relevant initiatives, dissemination conferences in the participating countries (England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Croatia), a research report, and a collection of training modules. A definite goal was to address and to counter rising tensions in EU countries regarding refugee and migration movements.
Narratives of Ambivalence
The Ethics of Vulnerability and Agency in Research with Girls in the Sex Trade
Alexandra Ricard-Guay and Myriam Denov
ABSTRACT
In this article, we examine the ethical realities that emerged from a qualitative study with adolescent girls on sexual exploitation. We outline and articulate the importance of moving beyond the inclusion of girls’ voices in research to discussing the ethical and practical implications of doing so. We consider the notions of power, victimization, and agency and highlight the ethical dilemma of doing research with girls in the sex trade, particularly in a context in which participants’ narratives are characterized by profound ambivalence, as seen in their frequent oscillation between narratives of victimization on the one hand, and of agency and power on the other. The nexus between girlhood studies and ethics provides us with a valuable opportunity to analyze, and thus highlight, the importance of social context in understanding these adolescent girls’ narratives and self-representations.
Kearsley A. Stewart
Interest in short-term international placements in global health training for U.S.-based medical students is growing; the trend is mirrored for global health undergraduate students. Best practices in field-based global health training can increase success for medical students, but we lack a critical framework for the undergraduate global health field experience. In what ways does an undergraduate field experience in global health resemble a medical student's first international health elective? Is it more similar to a study-abroad programme or a service-learning experience with a focus on personal development, civic responsibility and community engagement? This article suggests that an undergraduate global health field experience contains features of both the international medical elective and a traditional service-learning programme. I analyse a case study of a short-term U.S.-based undergraduate global health project and explore the intersections of research, professional training and service learning.
Building Capacity in Ethical Review
Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Region
Rachel Douglas-Jones
that the people (‘human subjects’) participating in the testing of drugs or medical devices are protected by standards of research ethics ( Petryna 2005 ). Prompted by the turn-of-the-century increases in multi-sited and ‘collaborative’ clinical trials
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 49–66
Martin Holbraad
Experimenting with the many potentials of anthropological analysis—that shifting interface between the empirical and the conceptual, the space and perhaps the time between ethnography and theory—is at the heart of our journal’s intellectual mission. Our aim is to publish articles that display a spirit of analytical exploration by dealing in fresh ways with their empirical materials and showing in the action of their analytical treatment new paths for anthropological thinking to pursue. Alongside full-length research articles, in this issue we inaugurate Think Pieces in Analytics, a forum devoted to slightly shorter and more speculative texts, in which particular aspects of the scope, process, or aims of anthropological analysis are explored for their own sake. Mirroring the ambiguous and shifting character of both the concept and the practice of analysis, we give free rein to contributors to broach matters of methodology, theoretical approach, research ethics and politics, interdisciplinary interface, and institutional infrastructure, as long as their bearing on questions of analytical practice in anthropology is identified.
Claudia Mitchell
There is probably no topic associated with doing fieldwork with girls and young women that evokes more concern than the issue of ethics. For many members of university research ethics boards (REBs) the very term girls in the title of a project sets