Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

Could we please all acknowledge that publishing fieldnotes does NOT make any research(er) more transparent? It is such specious logic that I can't even imagine anyone thinking this is a good move, regardless of the research context. And of course, authoritarian settings just makes this a completely ...

3. What does research transparency mean to you, particularly in the context of research with V/M communities? (optional) I should say that for the kind of work that I and many others do, transparency does not have any of the valence that DA-RT proponents would like it to have. Indeed, in the DA-RT ...

I think our obligation to protect human participants from harm need not be juxtaposed with the principle of openness. The kind of openness I endorse requires reflexivity, not the posting of sources that supposedly speak for themselves and "mean" the same to any reader, regardless of the ex...

Mala makes an excellent point that "archiving is not the same as transparency, and could be at odds with it." I have just finished a book manuscript on what I call "relational interviewing." From the beginning, I wanted to include some interview snippets in an appendix so that re...

I think what makes so many ethnographers and interpretivists like myself so uneasy about the term "transparency" as deployed by DA-RT is (1) the promotion of a single meaning rather than the recognition of the term's contested or multiple meanings depending on the researcher, her positiona...

I, too, agree with what Milli wrote, especially in the context of a place like Rwanda where the regime actively goes after (as in public and ongoing character assassination in print, on the internet, and at conferences) academics who say anything the least bit critical of the regime. Researchers are...