Working groups considering fundamental questions concerning the pursuit of transparency in qualitative empirical research, which cut across the particular forms of research in which qualitative scholars engage
Costs, benefits, and practicalities of different ways of institutionalizing the promotion of research transparency – and their interaction with power and resource differentials in the profession
Working groups considering what it means to be transparent when working with two kinds of empirical sources commonly considered by qualitative researchers.
I agree with most of these responses, especially with respect to publishing fieldnotes in authoritarian contexts. This is in many cases impossible, and unethical. I do not think there should be any imposed standards from the outside. But I do think there are cases where ethnographic fieldnotes can s...