AO: The analysts note that university institutional requirements for junior scholars in social cultural anthro make collaboration difficult. “Collaboration is difficult in cultural
AO: This 2009 co-authored article offers a “research in progress” report by the different authors seeking to bring about conversation about how social cultural anthropology (dis)
AO: The analysts interestingly reflect very much on their processes and rationales for collaboration but fail to discuss the data and information infrastructures that underly their...Read more
AO: They describe various collaborative experiments that they have undertake as academics working with other academics on knowledge production which they call “strong collaboration
AO: The analysts are interested in the relational ethics of medical research in Africa. They are particularly worried about ethics in these contexts because the global
AO: Smell. “Can humans and mushrooms really be collaborators? Might all knowledge, then, require collaboration? If so, what might we gain by making these necessary collaborations
AO: The technology is less of the focus within the stories although they talk about bringing in of equipment, riding around in land rovers, etc.Read more
AO: Analysts do not provide a “right answer” at the end of their fictitious stories, highlighting their assumption that there is not one right way to tackle the ethics
AO: The analysts argue that every contributor should be able to draw the project into new and original directions and that the project should continually shift because of its
Abstract: Scientific work is heterogeneous, requiring many different actors and viewpoints. It also requires cooperation. The two create tension between divergent viewpoints and the need for generalizable findings. We present a model of how one group of actors managed this tension. It draws on...Read more