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47 – Les risques du métier

Engagements problématiques en sciences sociales
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222 pages - 20 € / 131 FF
ISBN 2-7475-3432-4
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A travers des récits d'expérience, ce numéro explore les dilemmes et les ambiguïtés de l'enquête en sciences sociales. Des praticiens s'interrogent sur leur confrontation à la violence de guerre, le redoublement de la recherche par l'engagement, l'ancrage de l'enquête dans la biographie et les difficultés d'une anthropologie militante. Cette réflexion devrait permettre au lecteur de repérer des analogies entre des situations d'enquête à priori très éloignés. Et d'anticiper les risques du métier.

Every field is unique. So is the perception that the investigator has of his research-object : distant, tired, critical, empathetic, amorous, frightened... The range of different ways to react to events, to manage daily interactions, to maintain an axiological neutrality or to get politically involved with the actors is unlimited. This diversity does not, however, eclipse a common experience of sensitive fieldwork : the hardships of loyalty and of treason, of trust and of culpability, of fear and of terror in some cases. Through the story of real-life experiences, this issue explores the dilemmas and the ambiguities of investigation in the social sciences. Social scientists reflect upon their confrontation with violence and war, the compatibility of research and political involvement, the close relationship between investigation and one's own biography and the difficulties of a militant anthropology. These considerations should allow the reader to identify the analogies between situations very different at first glance... and to anticipate the risks of the profession.


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