Dear all,
this is an interesting and important topic - thanks for posting and talking about it.
Self-care and ethics to support researchers to stay healthy during fieldwork seems a basic conditio nto me.
My master thesis was about self-reflection in social- and cultural anthropology but during that work I recognized that it needs a lot of self-care to do so. That for my further thesis was about self-care and self-reflection in the field. I dedicated one of my articles to the topic self-care (in German):
Self-care in the field from an existential analytic point of view.
Selbstfürsorge im Feld. Überlegungen aus existenzanalytischer Perspektive. In Luger, Martin; Graf, Franz & Philipp Budka (Hg). Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance. 1. Auflage (2019): 29-54, V&R Unipress.
https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/sozial-rechts-und-wirtschaftswissenschaften/sozialwissenschaft/27205/ritualisierung-mediatisierung-performance?c=1780
See also:
2017. Selbstfürsorge und Selbstreflexion in der Feldforschung. Vienna, doctoral thesis.
(It's about a methodic way of self-reflection: Personal Field Reflection)
All the best,
Marion
Mag. Dr. phil. Marion Linska, MSc
psychotherapy - supervision - coaching - medical anthropology
www.linska.net
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Hi,
been reading to the replies coming with regard to the reading had undertaken my phd research in 2014-16 in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. and to come back alive , with my children was indeed something that i had mentioned in my thesis. however, an incident during my ethnography in 2015 was horrific.....with the State machinery intimidating and i along with the village girl, was almost near 'elimination'(a military operational term that the police station staff and the military personal kept murmuring during our 6 hours detention). kindly find the piece that i wrote and was published in WIRE :
“Doing Research in India Can Be a DangerousActivity”, The Wire , 8 August, 2015 should researchers do research where no one dares to go?should the researcher just do research on "soft issues"?does the researcher have an agency of her own to undertake research which she feels is relevant and important?
this and many questions i still live with and pursue my spirit to go about with doing research at times when there is no 'breathing space'
Dr. Vani XaxaConsultant (Project)National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW)Munirka, New Delhi- 110067+ 91 9891394621
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Dear all,
While the safely of researchers is without doubt a necessary concern, in many South African Universities our Ethics Boards are extremely prescriptive to the extent that they inhibit research. Some require the use of written informed consent forms (many people within the community in which I work are illiterate in the western sense), for all participants to be anonymized (many of our participants want recognition), and for universities to become the owners of collected data (but our data often belongs to the communities-such as traditional stories). As a result we constantly have to motivate to gain exemptions-which results in research timelines having to be extended. The idea of Ethics boards adding more hoops is daunting!
For more on my points see: K. Tomaselli, ‘Research Ethics in the Kalahari: Issues, Contradictions and Concerns’, Critical Arts, 30, 6 (2016).
Interesting to hear that people elsewhere are also subject to similar impeding controls....
Regards Julie.
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Dear all
There was also a relevant article in Anthropology in Action in the past year, which you can access at the following link.
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/aia/25/2/aia.25.issue-2.xml
I'm just thinking also that the author, Cassandra, might be a good person to do this at the EASA conference. Her article discusses implications of recent legal changes in Europe but also the challenge of developing ethical frameworks that work for ethnographic methodology and have a good fit and balance for anthropological work.
I have copied Cassandra in to this email, since I haven’t consulted her about such an idea!
Dr Christine McCourt
Editor, Anthropology in Action
Professor of Maternal & Child Health
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Dear all,
this is fascinating conversation - wondering if anyone would be interested
to present these issues especially when it comes to experience with ethics
committees within EU projects - at the EASA AGM in Brussels 28-29 October -
please PM me if so: https://easaonline.org/newsletter/74-0819/agm.shtml
Best wishes,
Mariya
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