Data management in anthropology: The next phase in ethics governance?

Autor: Anita von Poser, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Metje Postma, Igor Boog, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, Michael Schönhuth, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, Bob Simpson, Zane Kripe, Peter Pels, J. Henrike Florusbosch, Rena Lederman, Tessa Minter, Hansjörg Dilger
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Social Anthropology, 26(3), 391-413
Social anthropology, 2018, Vol.26(3), pp.391-413 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Social Anthropology
Popis: Recent demands for accountability in ‘data management’ by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity in opening up data for scrutiny seem to enhance scientific integrity, such principles do not always consider the way the social relationships of research are properly maintained. As a springboard, the present Forum, triggered by such recent demands to account for the use of ‘data’, discusses the present state of anthropological research and academic ethics/integrity in a broader perspective. It specifically gives voice to our disciplinary concerns and leads to a principled statement that clarifies a particularly ethnographic position. This position is then discussed by several commentators who treat its viability and necessity against the background of wider developments in anthropology – sustaining the original insight that in ethnography, research materials have been co‐produced before they become commoditised into ‘data’. Finally, in moving beyond such a position, the Forum broadens the issue to the point where other methodologies and forms of ownership of research materials will also need consideration.
Databáze: OpenAIRE