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Ethical Ethics Analysis

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This week readings, were different from the rest of the course, since they addressed the institutional aspects of ethical conduct. Anthropologists, differently from some other disciplines, encounter with different challenges while doing fieldwork, since the research tends to take place in sensitive contexts. Anthropologists worked without a centralized ethical conduct manual, until the AAA issued the statement in which they stand for ‘doing no harm’ as a central principle. This ethical code has had several amendments, being the 2009, the last one. The AAA also offers an ‘ethics handbook’, in which they discuss several situations that anthropologists might encounter while doing fieldwork, while publishing or in university settings.
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Rebecca’s research raised an important issue, that related with past classes which is the applicability of our research. We discussed that ethics are not only while carrying on research, but also afterwards, when our work is done. Research as Rebecca’s, can be used as an advocating tool for ‘safe spaces’ since the virtual world, is not only a physical, but also a symbolical safe space, which helps people empathize and understand the importance of not being judged insensitive situations. Pedrom’s and mine, are a good example of an attempt of doing academic research that can afterwards be used as an advocacy tool-
3. What are some of the ideas, concepts, or entire texts that were difficult, or that you had trouble understanding? Why were they difficult? (1pt)
There were no concepts or ideas that were difficult, however while reading the AAA statement, I found that despite being a document carefully crafted, there is stiall a lack of accountability for unethical researchers. By unethical I mean, people who is intentionally violating ethical conduct to gain a benefit exclusively for themselves. The second issue that I found problematic, is that in several universities and anthropology departmentes, there is no mandatory ethics overview, which leads to two different consequences: people having unethical conduct out of ignorance or people intentionally behaving in an unethical

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