This essay is part of three orals documents submitted by University of California, Irvine Anthropology doctoral student Angela Okune i n partial...Read more
This orals essay focuses on including a wide range of disciplines thinking about collaboration across different periods of the research life cycle. James and I decided to focus on collaboration within the research life cycle (rather than just collaboration more broadly) because for both of our...Read more
AO: Building off of the current work I am doing with the Nairobi instance of PECE (RDS), I am expecting to use PECE to be the supporting technical infrastructure for the formation of a collective...Read more
Angela Okune is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Irvine. She studies data sharing cultures and infrastructures of qualitative research groups working in and on Kenya in order to explore broader questions of equity, knowledge production and socio-...Read more
Conceptual Framework:
AO: These orals documents are framed around Fortun’s conceptualization of discursive risks and gaps (Fortun 2012). Fortun writes that the contemporary Late Industrial period is characterized by complex conditions for which there is no...Read more
Anderson, Jenny. 2018. “Funded by Gates and Zuckerberg, One Company Is on a Quest to Educate the World’s Poorest Kids.” Quartz Media , January 22, 2018. https://qz.com/1179738/bridge-school/ .
Aviles, Natalie B. 2018. “Situated...Read more
Citing Folayan and Allman (2011), Biruk notes that whereas researchers earn money, status, and accolades for their work, research participants are expected to understand their role as voluntary, altruistic, and towards the collective good (2018: 103). While I hold this assumption to be...Read more
