Introduction Experiencing the Ethnographic Present: Knowing through ‘Crisis’

Halstead, Narmala

doi:10.1515/9780857450692-001

“…We provide here a snapshot of these labs’ ethical cultures in a particular moment. But culture is always negotiated; it is always in flux (Fabian, 1983; Halstead et al, 2008; Sanjek, 1991). We observed this in Dr. Helen's lab during moments of productive discomfort where lab members gradually approached agreement about difficult ethical dilemmas.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Cultural Production of Everyday Ethics in Two University STEM Labs

Mickel,

Heidebrink-Bruno,

Hosseiny Marani

et al. 2023

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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How do ethics show up in the everyday behaviors and conversations of researchers in a scientific laboratory? How does the microcosmic culture of the laboratory shape researchers’ understandings of scientific ethics? We, an interdisciplinary team representing anthropology, computer science, and rhetorical studies, investigated these questions in two university STEM labs. Similar to previous work mapping out the epistemic cultures, we sought to understand the ethical cultures of these research groups. We observed their lab meetings for several months and conducted interviews with members of the research laboratories. Ultimately, we recognized two distinct ethical cultures within the two laboratories: one focused on the relationship between science and social justice, and the other focused on clean data and accuracy as an ethical issue. These two distinct ethical cultures were discernable through ethnography, close reading of laboratory members’ language, as well as broad-scale topic modeling. Our project complements previous studies of ethics in science that have focused on codes of ethics or student curricula as ways in which scientists develop an understanding of scientific ethics. Our project demonstrates that everyday interactions between the members of scientific research labs additionally shape, at a decidedly local level, how scientists understand and ultimately approach ethical decision-making in the scientific research process.

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“…In pre-pandemic times, conducting longterm fieldwork and participant observation enabled me to live with and be a part of the daily lives of my interlocutors. This participant observation and 'doing ethnography' became an embodied knowledge (Okely and Callaway, 1992;Halstead et al, 2008). Such life experiences, sensory experiences, emotions and embodiments influence our personal views of the world and the ethnographic story and the themes we present (Pink, 2015).…”

Section: Positionality and Methods In Unforeseen Circumstancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Roma Ethnographies of Grief in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sarafian

2024

Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research

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“…In pre-pandemic times, conducting longterm fieldwork and participant observation enabled me to live with and be a part of the daily lives of my interlocutors. This participant observation and 'doing ethnography' became an embodied knowledge (Okely and Callaway, 1992;Halstead et al, 2008). Such life experiences, sensory experiences, emotions and embodiments influence our personal views of the world and the ethnographic story and the themes we present (Pink, 2015).…”

Section: Positionality and Methods In Unforeseen Circumstancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research

2024

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Introduction Experiencing the Ethnographic Present: Knowing through ‘Crisis’

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The Cultural Production of Everyday Ethics in Two University STEM Labs

The Cultural Production of Everyday Ethics in Two University STEM Labs

Roma Ethnographies of Grief in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research

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