Surrogate Ethnography: Fieldwork, the Academy, and Resisting the IRB

• Published in: Journal of contemporary ethnography Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 3 - 27
• Main Authors: Newmahr, Staci, Hannem, Stacey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2018; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Academic climate; Autoethnography; College faculty; Educational administration; Ethnography; Litigation; Paraphilias; Participation; Power; Qualitative research; Researcher subject relations; Resistance; Sadomasochism; Welfare; IRB; surrogate ethnography; prison visiting; sadomasochism; ethnography

Nearly every ethnographer has observed the growing reach and increasingly uncomfortable power of the IRB. As IRB restrictions have grown tighter, the consequences have become more dire. The failure of most IRBs to understand ethnography at all, along with increasing concerns about litigation that tr...