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by alyssagrahame
Fri May 13, 2016 1:55 pm
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: [From Steering Committee] What might “transparency” look like for ethnographers?
Replies: 11
Views: 34685

Re: [From Steering Committee] What might “transparency” look like for ethnographers?

This post takes up the question of what transparency would mean in the ethnographic research tradition beyond answering to DART. What is transparency in the first place? For whom, how, and to what end do we incorporate transparency into ethnographic research practices and production?  One of my stud...
by alyssagrahame
Wed May 11, 2016 2:49 pm
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: Transparency, openness, & ethnography in democratic contexts
Replies: 7
Views: 22826

Re: Transparency, openness, & ethnography in democratic contexts

Thanks to both for the replies and to Kathy for the kind words. I agree with both contributors' responses and elaborations. Both responses invite further consideration of how researchers relate to their "subjects" or "participants" in various contexts. Both Kathy Cramer's post an...
by alyssagrahame
Mon May 02, 2016 10:49 am
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: Against "requirements"
Replies: 22
Views: 54210

Re: Against "requirements"

I tend to agree with other posts that point out that these requirements would impose an undue burden on qualitative researchers. As a graduate student, I have had the great fortune to receive external funding to support field research, which produced original data. I do not have funding for intervie...
by alyssagrahame
Mon May 02, 2016 10:44 am
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: Transparency, openness, & ethnography in democratic contexts
Replies: 7
Views: 22826

Transparency, openness, & ethnography in democratic contexts

There has been quite a bit of discussion about what DA-RT would mean for ethnographic research, and for research taking place under less than ideal conditions, such as in authoritarian regimes, or with otherwise vulnerable research subjects. Here I wish to add in some of the implications for those o...