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Ethnographies of Resistance Movements: Legible to the Authorities

October 11, 2010 by

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About 739 posts ago, I published “Exposing the Network,” wherein I expressed my worries about making data on resistance movements and anarchist networks available to open source intelligence gathering by the authorities. The value of such research may be great for discussions internal to anthropology, but the data on which the discussions are based are […]

Neocolonialism: It’s Post-Independence, Not Post-Colonial

September 3, 2010 by

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Unintended Open Source Ethnography For as much serendipity as conventional, on the ground, ethnography is known to entail, the “approach” discussed here is barely an approach at all: it was unprovoked, unplanned, without coordination, being neither methodical nor systematic.  It became a collaboration, out of mutual interest, from distinct and separate positions, but there was […]

Blind Spots: Ethical Research in the Midst of Counterinsurgency

September 16, 2009 by

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“Rough Terrain,” an article by Vanessa Gezari in the Washington Post (30 Aug. 2009), one of the latest in a series of articles in the mainstream media devoted to the Human Terrain System published over the past two years, introduces us to the figure of “Doc”: Karl Slaikeu, a 64-year-old psychologist and conflict-resolution specialist from […]

Como protegerse contra un antropólogo: Un código de ética desde la base

September 21, 2008 by

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The following is a Spanish translation of the original and unrevised document that appeared in English on this blog on 09 September, 2008. Lo siguiente es una traducción al español del documento original que apareció en Inglés en este blog el día 09 de septiembre, 2008. Algunos de los cambios en el texto original no […]

How to Protect Yourself from an Anthropologist: A Code of Ethics from the Bottom Up (2.0)

September 9, 2008 by

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Revised: 21 September 2008 This document is meant to be the start of a decolonized code of ethics, ethics as seen not from the point of view of the foreign anthropologist, but from the vantage point of the community “receiving” that anthropologist. The history behind this document is quite long, dating at least to Vine […]

Political Reactions to SSHRC Funding: Bloc Québécois

July 16, 2008 by

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Following from five previous posts on the impacts on research arising from the structure of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), I have had at least one reaction from a member of Canada’s Federal Parliament. Incidentally, the last of that series of posts can be seen here, with the […]

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