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Accepted Paper:
Ethics in conflict in- and outside academia: professional anthropologists versus anthropological professionals
Alex Strating (University of Amsterdam)
Paper short abstract:
In my paper I want to take the case of a student who took a job with the armed forces as an 'anthropological' liaison officer as a starting point to reflect upon the different levels of moral obligations inside and outside the academic arena and how we can include this in our teaching.
Paper long abstract:
There seems to be a growing gap between the way in which professional academic anthropologists discuss and reflect upon the ethical dilemmas that arise from doing fieldwork in conflict areas and the realities that our students encounter when they enter the non-academic job market. In my paper I want to take the case of a student who took a job with the armed forces as an 'anthropological' liaison officer and the way in which this was discussed among students as a starting point to reflect upon the different levels of moral obligations inside and outside the academic arena and how we can include this in our teaching. By teaching our students implicitly or explicitly a rather rigid code of ethics we run the risk of leaving them empty-handed or ill-equipped when entering the job market outside academia.
Ethics in conflict: doing research in conflict areas and the ethical dilemmas that arise
Session 1