Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices

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Melissa Nolas explores how the use of photography and anonymous portraits helped to overcome some of the challenges in the ethics of representation

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Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss describes strangers interrupting research dynamics and flows, touching on the ethical challenge for privacy in close-knit communities

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What happens to ethics when the process of conducting research itself becomes public? What do we do when adults or parents intervene in data collection?

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Dr Christos Varvantakis explores ‘coming of age’ tropes and temporalities in childhood play, and how ethics and anonymity are understood and enacted

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In Hyderabad, we usually go on a spree of doing fieldwork in hot summer, as that’s the time schools shut down for long vacation. On a day the temperature was running as high as 45’c in the afternoon, we were up for a visit to Bhavana, one of our research participants that lives in a …

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Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores some of the complexities in indigenous ethnography, and the multiple identities researchers navigate

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