Power, Ethics, and Human Rights

Studies of Refugee Research and Action

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

Refugees experience some of the most visible manifestations of human rights abuses in the world today—and raise difficult issues for researchers and policy makers alike. This book investigates a broad range of complexities that arise as ethnographers work with refugee populations from different geographic areas in research, policy formation, and legal and social assistance. But the issues raised here have application to ethical concerns in ethnographic research and practice beyond refugees. The contributors draw on their intensive fieldwork to explore issues surrounding power and disempowerment between researcher and subject; dilemmas over the protection of research informants; and the rights and actions of refugees in representing themselves and their cultures in advocacy and policy arenas. The wealth of important insights in this book sharpen our understanding of the problems faced in any cross-cultural research and intervention. These explorations revitalize, in vivid detail drawn from case studies, recent theoretical debates on anthropology and ethnographic research, while suggesting new, empowering approaches to applied work and ethnographic study.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-10-29
Mått:147 x 223 x 17 mm
Vikt:281 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847688982

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Ruth M. Krulfeld is professor of anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University. Jeffery L. MacDonald is director of program development at the International Refugee Center of Oregon (IRCO) and is president of the society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

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Krulfeld and MacDonald have edited a book of excellent chapters by well-respected anthropologists in refugee studies. The strong focus on community participation and empowerment in refugee research questions the ethics of researchers who study or create programs for about refugees without their input. Social science researchers, clinicians, program evaluators and their students will find the book a very good read. Rich and moving descriptive data are integrated with the authors' own experiences, enlightening readers to personal and ethical dilemmas in refugee work, yet maintaining a scholarly base...

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: Human Rights and ResearchChapter 3 Exploring New Methods for Collaboration in Ethnographic Research: An Attempt at Overcoming Exploitation and Violation of Informant RightsChapter 4 Whose Lives, Whose Work? Struggling Along the Subject-Colleague ContinuumChapter 5 The Testimonio Method in Refugee Research: Bringing Together Advocacy and Feminism in an Ethnographic Encounter with Q'eqchi' amd K'iche' WomenPart 6 Part II: Who has the Right to Present and RepresentChapter 7 "We are the Experts:" a Case of Iu-Mien (Yao) Refugees Asserting Their Rights as Scholars of Their Own CultureChapter 8 Towards an Heterology of PowerPart 9 Part III: Human Rights and PraxisChapter 10 Applied Anthropology, Funding Agencies, and the Human and Cultural Rights of Ethnic Communities,