Reply: solidarity

Sawalha, Aseel

doi:10.1007/s10624-008-9074-5

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“…Prainsack and Buyx also note that solidarity is a practice rather than just a sentiment, value, or feeling, and this is a key distinguishing feature from empathy (2012: 348; 2017: 43; see also Rakopoulos 2016). They argue that if similar actions are undertaken in hierarchical relationships, then these are acts of charity rather than solidarity (Prainsack & Buyx 2012: 348; see also Sawalha 2008; Theodossopoulos 2020). They further note that charity is motivated by a sense of difference between self and other, whereas solidarity first recognizes similarity between self and other (Prainsack & Buxy 2017: 54).…”

Section: Solidarity In Fieldwork Relationshipsmentioning

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The ethics and obligations of long‐term ethnographic relationships: revelatory moments and the concept of solidarity

Hemer

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article reflects on an ethical and revelatory moment in the development of my long‐term fieldwork relationships with people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea. Ethnographic research globally is now shaped through formal processes of ethical review, with the requirements for informed consent, privacy, and consideration of harm and beneficence. Researchers then have to put these procedures into practice, often encountering the need to weigh competing ethical principles, particularly when unforeseen events occur. Reflexivity has been argued to be crucial on these occasions. Yet both ethical codes and reflexivity fall short of managing ethical and relational implications of long‐term field relationships. This article suggests that the concept of solidarity as theorized recently in bioethics may be helpful, particularly the discernment of three layers of relationship. What responsibilities might we as anthropologists have to the people we work with that go beyond procedural ethics? And how do moments such as the one described in this article shape ongoing field research?

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