Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., is professor of Peace Studies and graduate chair of Humanities at Prescott College. Trenna Valado, Ph.D., is an applied anthropologist who currently works with a private company that aims to improve the lives of children and families through interdisciplinary research and evaluation of social service programs.

Professional Lives, Personal Struggles provides a nuanced examination of the ethical issues faced by ethnographic researchers who work with or on behalf of people who are dispossessed. Even experienced researchers are likely to find the analyses consistently thought-provoking and at times original. Novice researchers might particularly benefit from insightful discussion of the ways in which others have come to grips with the quandaries they are sure to face.

• Forewordby Jeff FerrellIntroduction: Rediscovering Homelessness . . . and Ourselvesby Randall AmsterPart 1: Advocacy and IdentityChapter 1: Social Justice, Ethics, and Advocacy in Street Research: A Personal Accountingby Talmadge WrightChapter 2: The Advocate Researcherby Rob RosenthalChapter 3: Homelessness and Dragby Kathleen ArnoldChapter 4: Writing the Streets: Dilemmas of Depictionby Trenna ValadoPart 2: Relationships and EthicsChapter 5: Planning and Managing Ethical Dilemmas in Homelessness Researchby Michael RoweChapter 6: ‘Buddy Researcher’? Prospects, Limitations, and Ethical Considerations in Ethnographic Research on Homeless People in Berlinby Jürgen von MahsChapter 7: Ethics and Studying Homelessness: Tales from the Fieldby Kurt BorchardChapter 8: Weapons of the Weak, by the Weak, and for the Weak: Negotiating Power Between and Among Homeless Persons and Service Providersby Julie AdkinsPart 3: Research and TransformationChapter 9: Do We Really Need More Research on Homelessness? An Autoethnographic Exploration of Ethics, Advocacy, and Exasperationby Vin Lyon-CalloChapter 10: Homelessness as ‘Internal Displacement’: Scholarship and Activism in Post-Katrina New Orleansby Randall AmsterChapter 11: Do (No) Harm: Homelessness and Personal Transformationby David CookChapter 12: On the Politics and Ethics of ‘Using’ ‘the Homeless’ in Social Justice Researchby Don Mitchell and Lynn StaeheliConclusion: Synthesizing the Personal and Professional by Trenna Valado

Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., is professor of Peace Studies and graduate chair of Humanities at Prescott College. Trenna Valado, Ph.D., is an applied anthropologist who currently works with a private company that aims to improve the lives of children and families through interdisciplinary research and evaluation of social service programs.

Professional Lives, Personal Struggles provides a nuanced examination of the ethical issues faced by ethnographic researchers who work with or on behalf of people who are dispossessed. Even experienced researchers are likely to find the analyses consistently thought-provoking and at times original. Novice researchers might particularly benefit from insightful discussion of the ways in which others have come to grips with the quandaries they are sure to face.

• Forewordby Jeff FerrellIntroduction: Rediscovering Homelessness . . . and Ourselvesby Randall AmsterPart 1: Advocacy and IdentityChapter 1: Social Justice, Ethics, and Advocacy in Street Research: A Personal Accountingby Talmadge WrightChapter 2: The Advocate Researcherby Rob RosenthalChapter 3: Homelessness and Dragby Kathleen ArnoldChapter 4: Writing the Streets: Dilemmas of Depictionby Trenna ValadoPart 2: Relationships and EthicsChapter 5: Planning and Managing Ethical Dilemmas in Homelessness Researchby Michael RoweChapter 6: ‘Buddy Researcher’? Prospects, Limitations, and Ethical Considerations in Ethnographic Research on Homeless People in Berlinby Jürgen von MahsChapter 7: Ethics and Studying Homelessness: Tales from the Fieldby Kurt BorchardChapter 8: Weapons of the Weak, by the Weak, and for the Weak: Negotiating Power Between and Among Homeless Persons and Service Providersby Julie AdkinsPart 3: Research and TransformationChapter 9: Do We Really Need More Research on Homelessness? An Autoethnographic Exploration of Ethics, Advocacy, and Exasperationby Vin Lyon-CalloChapter 10: Homelessness as ‘Internal Displacement’: Scholarship and Activism in Post-Katrina New Orleansby Randall AmsterChapter 11: Do (No) Harm: Homelessness and Personal Transformationby David CookChapter 12: On the Politics and Ethics of ‘Using’ ‘the Homeless’ in Social Justice Researchby Don Mitchell and Lynn StaeheliConclusion: Synthesizing the Personal and Professional by Trenna Valado

Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., is professor of Peace Studies and graduate chair of Humanities at Prescott College. Trenna Valado, Ph.D., is an applied anthropologist who currently works with a private company that aims to improve the lives of children and families through interdisciplinary research and evaluation of social service programs.

Professional Lives, Personal Struggles provides a nuanced examination of the ethical issues faced by ethnographic researchers who work with or on behalf of people who are dispossessed. Even experienced researchers are likely to find the analyses consistently thought-provoking and at times original. Novice researchers might particularly benefit from insightful discussion of the ways in which others have come to grips with the quandaries they are sure to face.

• Forewordby Jeff FerrellIntroduction: Rediscovering Homelessness . . . and Ourselvesby Randall AmsterPart 1: Advocacy and IdentityChapter 1: Social Justice, Ethics, and Advocacy in Street Research: A Personal Accountingby Talmadge WrightChapter 2: The Advocate Researcherby Rob RosenthalChapter 3: Homelessness and Dragby Kathleen ArnoldChapter 4: Writing the Streets: Dilemmas of Depictionby Trenna ValadoPart 2: Relationships and EthicsChapter 5: Planning and Managing Ethical Dilemmas in Homelessness Researchby Michael RoweChapter 6: ‘Buddy Researcher’? Prospects, Limitations, and Ethical Considerations in Ethnographic Research on Homeless People in Berlinby Jürgen von MahsChapter 7: Ethics and Studying Homelessness: Tales from the Fieldby Kurt BorchardChapter 8: Weapons of the Weak, by the Weak, and for the Weak: Negotiating Power Between and Among Homeless Persons and Service Providersby Julie AdkinsPart 3: Research and TransformationChapter 9: Do We Really Need More Research on Homelessness? An Autoethnographic Exploration of Ethics, Advocacy, and Exasperationby Vin Lyon-CalloChapter 10: Homelessness as ‘Internal Displacement’: Scholarship and Activism in Post-Katrina New Orleansby Randall AmsterChapter 11: Do (No) Harm: Homelessness and Personal Transformationby David CookChapter 12: On the Politics and Ethics of ‘Using’ ‘the Homeless’ in Social Justice Researchby Don Mitchell and Lynn StaeheliConclusion: Synthesizing the Personal and Professional by Trenna Valado