... of research agendas stemming from institutions based in and tied to an imperial power that has destroyed the very possibility of the existence of a robust academic life in Iraq. It also proposes an alternative research imaginary that politicizes research ethics by putting justice and equality over...

...Sara Ababneh Abstract This reflection on the politics and ethics of social research in Jordan starts with the dynamics between individual researchers and then turns to the politics and policies of data ownership in funded projects. The power relations between individual researchers as well as those...

...Mayssoun Sukarieh Abstract Over the last few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in addressing the problematic politics and ethics of global North/global South relations within social science research projects. This essay outlines the ethical concerns arising from the funded research...

...Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Sampling from the “Indigenous turn” in anthropology, this article asks what might be relevant for our thinking about the politics and ethics of social research practices in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region from the decolonizing efforts of those working in New...

... counts as “the community” than who counts as “local,” especially in the complex terrain of this vast and varied region. Nor can calculating benefits ever be straightforward. But these are the ethical questions that we confront in these diverse reflections on what decolonizing research might entail...

... the implications of these discriminatory practices for Palestinian students and staff with regard to psychological well-being, experiences of acquiring and producing knowledge, and the ethics of the research in which they participate as assistants, surveyors, or local informants have received little attention...

...Ali Abdullatif Ahmida Abstract This short article reflects the author's thinking on the ethics of silence and the recovery of the history of the concentration camps, based on fifteen years of research among the survivors’ oral and folk histories. It challenges the ethics of the dominant colonial...

... by government control over research along with a public culture that is increasingly intolerant of differences in interpretation in the name of a feeling ethics. Second, the production of knowledge at different institutional sites might stand in a tense relation...

... to the ethics committee's decision. In reply to the question “LOCATION: Where will the project be carried out e.g. public place, in researcher's office, in private office at organization?” (note the words “public place” and “private,” with the options all being outside participants’ private homes) I wrote...

... these as ethical challenges, I have taken those moments of ethnographic refusal/acceptance as a starting point to explore the social relationships and positionalities that undergird these stances and to reflect on what it means to live under political surveillance. The refusals that my research participants...

...- plane returning from Iran to the U.S., a strange alization of the research ethic” that Appadurai idea kept occurring to me. I thought that most sees as a step toward a different form of interna- immigrants, regardless of the familial, social...

.... Psychoanalytically informed observation, when brought to ethnographic research in the postcolony, provides a perspective for moving beyond one's own assumptions about reality and one's own ethical projects while also attending to the interviewee as a decentered subject that does not always know itself but can...

... their interpretations in conversation with her own original research and problematization of ethics and gender as an American anthropologist with a long history of research in India. Pinto highlights the knots of marriage, sexuality, and gendered selfhood that tie Mrs. A. to time and place, and to India as an ethical...

... Chicago University in 1972 and Ph.D. (Arabic and Islamic Studies) economics and Islamic religion Naqvi postulates that “in from Chicago in 1975. He worked at the Islamic Research Institute, the climate of Islamic philosophy it is ethics that Islamabad from 1964 to 1984, and is now associated...

... and the New Imperialism . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2004 . Redfield Peter . Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors without Borders . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2013 . Robbins Joel . “ Beyond the Suffering Subject: Toward an Anthropology...

... and the Psychiatry Department of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) for their contribution to this research project. References Derrida Jacques . “ Geopsychoanalysis .” In The Psychoanalysis of Race , edited by Lane Christopher , 65 – 90 . New York : Columbia...

...Rajbir Singh Judge [email protected] The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt . By Omnia El Shakry . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 . 224 pp., $35.00 . The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis...

... and therefore the question of ethics becomes rel- in The Cracked Mirror is clear, we can usefully exam- evant to the act of theorizing. Curiosity or inter- ine the disagreements and tensions in the dialogue est in pursuing a particular research problem (as between Guru and Sarukkai. Guru is critical...

... chapters on man and post-Ottoman Mediterranean. His current the often overlooked amateur diplomacies of everyday research project, “Smuggling and the Remaking of life, postcolonial cities, ethics, and cultural transla- the Eastern Mediterranean, 1912–40,” examines the tion in Africa. impact...

... . “Cosmopolitan Comparison.” Plenary Address, American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, LA , April 3 , 2010 . ———. “Crisis in the Classics.” Social Research 78 , no. 1 ( 2011 ): 21 – 48 . ———. “The Death of Sanskrit.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 43 , no. 2...