A partir dos anos 1970, os métodos de pesquisa participativa sediada em comunidades ganharam pouco a pouco crédito no campo das pesquisas aplicadas, ocasionando mutações epistêmicas e éticas nas práticas de pesquisa com participantes humanos. Este artigo apoia-se sobre um exemplo de pesquisa 'ecossistêmica' em saúde ambiental, conduzida em parceria entre pesquisadores universitários (Canadá e Brasil) e habitantes das margens de um rio da Amazônia brasileira, o Tapajós. Esse exemplo ilustra as tensões que afetam o quadro conceitual no qual são (...) habitualmente colocadas as questões de ética da pesquisa com participantes humanos, principalmente os princípios cardeais retirados do relatório Belmont, e muito particularmente aqueles de beneficência e de justiça. Esse gênero de prática científica implica um desdobramento da responsabilidade dos pesquisadores, entre a pesquisa e a ação. (shrink)

This article, which stems from separate research projects pursued by each author in Oaxaca, Mexico, explores conducting fieldwork through the lenses of community autonomy , and hospitality . Engaging with these concepts made us question how the process of research can contradict cultural ethics that operate within fieldwork locations, as well as consider how such concepts may inform a more ethical set of inquiry practices. Such a set of alternative ethics can provide, furthermore, means for negotiating situations marked by interculturality, (...) particularly as it emerges through contemporary processes of globalization. (shrink)

Fieldwork is a project in which, according to Rose (1997, p. 316), researcher, researched and research make each other, yet far more attention has been given to the making of the research and researcher than to the researched. Focusing on three aspects of the research process (the researcher's presence in the field, the research topic and the choice of methods), this paper uses examples from the author's own fieldwork to debate whether it is possible to shape fieldwork such that the (...) knowledges created and consumed in the field by the researched serve to destabilise dominant discourses of race, gender and age. (shrink)