Ethics (TNE) Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/alliances/the-new-ethnographer/ethics-tne/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:40:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Ethics (TNE) Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/alliances/the-new-ethnographer/ethics-tne/ 32 32 Towards a compassionate turn https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-compassionate-turn/ https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-compassionate-turn/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46381 This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-compassionate-turn/feed/ 0 The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-mediation-in-conservation-spaces/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-mediation-in-conservation-spaces/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46374 This article explores the ethical precarity of conducting anthropological research within contested conservation spaces, where moral boundaries are blurred and alliances are unstable.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-mediation-in-conservation-spaces/feed/ 0 Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/friendships-built-on-distrust-navigating-fragility-during-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/friendships-built-on-distrust-navigating-fragility-during-fieldwork/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46359 Hareem Khan examines the fragility and fluidity of friendships formed during ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on trust, distrust, and rupture as constitutive elements of research relationships.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/friendships-built-on-distrust-navigating-fragility-during-fieldwork/feed/ 0 Fieldwork in the context of Covid-19 https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46377 The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped ethnographic research, forcing scholars to reconsider fieldwork methods, ethics, and institutional responsibilities.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/feed/ 0 ‘Friendnography’ and the ethical questions it raises https://allegralaboratory.net/friendnography-and-the-ethical-questions-it-raises/ https://allegralaboratory.net/friendnography-and-the-ethical-questions-it-raises/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:05:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46346 Of all the hundreds of photos on my old phone, there was only one that I absolutely had to get […]

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