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Ethics without the Ethics: The Institutionalized Committees and the Question of Integrity
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Street Books in Tehran: Collective Mentality and Decolonizing Research Engagement
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The Ethics of Researching the Far-Right in the Global South
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Narrative Abandonment: Suffering and the Hidden Costs of Solidarity in Times of War
As the all-out war in Ukraine touched the baton with the Covid pandemic in the early 2022, the plight of
An audio note on Commitment
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Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced
The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening
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ANTHROKINO
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Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South
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