Data Gathering/Production

AO. Aellah - distinction between public and private funding for research

  • AO: The analysts note that research ethics cannot be separated from the economic context of global research (“Material realities dictate ethical possibilities, and

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MACRO: (How) are economic and legal infrastructures said to shape, enable and constrain collaboration at this stage of the research process? What incentives and benefits are said to be part of collaboration at this stage of the research process?
Aellah, G., T. Chantler, and P. W. Geissler, eds. 2016. Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies from Africa. Wallingford: CABI.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Aellah - funding and time constraints

ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?
Aellah, G., T. Chantler, and P. W. Geissler, eds. 2016. Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies from Africa. Wallingford: CABI.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Choy et al. - techno

AO: The group looks at phenomena of “contingent connection” to trace the comparative cases over time and space. However, they do not detail how they do this technically.Read more

TECHNO: (How) are technological infrastructures said to shape, enable and constrain collaboration at this stage of the research process?
Choy, Timothy K., Lieba Faier, Michael J. Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, and Anna Tsing. “A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds.” American Ethnologist 36, no. 2 (May 2009): 380–403.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Aellah - no "right" answer to ethical collaboration. Need process of long-term engagement across difference.

  • 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

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DISCURSIVE RISKS: What are the epistemic assumptions of the analyst of collaboration?
Aellah, G., T. Chantler, and P. W. Geissler, eds. 2016. Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies from Africa. Wallingford: CABI.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO.*Not* the big science model.

  • AO: Arguing against, “big science” model, Tsing notes that since good fieldwork is supposed to change the fieldworker’s research questions, standardized questions, goals, and methods

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PRACTICES: What “best practices” does the analyst believe make for improved collaboration?
Choy, Timothy K., Lieba Faier, Michael J. Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, and Anna Tsing. “A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds.” American Ethnologist 36, no. 2 (May 2009): 380–403.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. missing reflections on data

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

DATA: How does the analyst point to the data practices in the collaboration? Or to the data produced about the collaboration? Where does that data travel?
Choy, Timothy K., Lieba Faier, Michael J. Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, and Anna Tsing. “A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds.” American Ethnologist 36, no. 2 (May 2009): 380–403.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Aellah - MOU and deliberation

  • AO: “Deciding on rules of engagement or drawing up memoranda of understanding is a critical process in research collaboration, and one that may need to be revisited and

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PRACTICES: What “best practices” does the analyst believe make for improved collaboration?
Aellah, G., T. Chantler, and P. W. Geissler, eds. 2016. Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies from Africa. Wallingford: CABI.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Smell.

  • 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

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ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?
Choy, Timothy K., Lieba Faier, Michael J. Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, and Anna Tsing. “A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds.” American Ethnologist 36, no. 2 (May 2009): 380–403.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data
Gorman, Michael E. “Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: A Framework for Multidisciplinary Collaboration.” Social Studies of Science 32, no. 5–6 (December 2002): 933–38.

Michael Gorman discusses the utility of the concepts "boundary objects" and "trading zones" in the study of collaborations across differing levels of expertise.Read more

ANALYSIS OF COLLABORATION IN DATA GATHERING AND DATA PRODUCTION

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AO. Important to distinguish between types of funding sources.

AO: The analysts note that public medical research is under threat from particular economic and political interests. They also note public-private partnerships that emphasize...Read more

TEXT: How does this piece relate to my project?
Aellah, G., T. Chantler, and P. W. Geissler, eds. 2016. Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies from Africa. Wallingford: CABI.
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