Photo/stories from the field: the curtain as a signifier of ‘private’ and ‘public’ in the research space
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices
Tag Archives: ethics
Photo/stories from the field: anonymous portraits and other practices in the ethics of representation
Melissa Nolas explores how the use of photography and anonymous portraits helped to overcome some of the challenges in the ethics of representation
Photo/Stories from the field: An encounter with an unsolicited stranger
Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss describes strangers interrupting research dynamics and flows, touching on the ethical challenge for privacy in close-knit communities
Photo/Stories from the field: Adults in child research
What happens to ethics when the process of conducting research itself becomes public? What do we do when adults or parents intervene in data collection?
Photo/Stories from the field: To part with one’s dolls
Dr Christos Varvantakis explores ‘coming of age’ tropes and temporalities in childhood play, and how ethics and anonymity are understood and enacted
Photo/Stories from the field: Ethics and place
In Hyderabad, we usually go on a spree of doing fieldwork in hot summer, as that’s the time schools shut down for long vacation. On a day the temperature was […]
A known researcher or an unknown stranger
Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores some of the complexities in indigenous ethnography, and the multiple identities researchers navigate