When Overt Research Feels Covert: Researching Women and Gangs in a Context of Silence and Fear

This paper discusses the tension between ethics in theory and ethics in practice, along the continuum of overt and covert field research. I argue that complete overt research is not only unfeasible, but can even be dangerous or harmful to the people we research and the researcher. Within this discus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellen Van Damme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Extreme Anthropology Research Network 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Extreme Anthropology
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Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/JEA/article/view/6696