Collaborators collaborating : counterparts in anthropological knowledge and international research relations

326 Pages·2012·1.85 MB·English

by  Monica Konrad

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Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge
and International Research Relations
Edited by
Monica Konrad
Berghahn Books
NEW YORK • OXFORD
Published in 2012 by
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© 2012 Monica Konrad

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Collaborators collaborating : counterparts in anthropological knowledge and
international research relations / edited by Monica Konrad.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-85745-480-5 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-85745-
481-2 (ebook)
1. Anthropology--Research. 2. Bioethics--Research. 3. International
relations--Research. I. Konrad, Monica.
GN42.C65 2012
301.072--dc23
2011041087
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Printed in the United States on acid-free paper
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Contents
Preface vii
PaRt I. INtERsECtIONs aND aLIgNmENts 1
1. A Feel for Detail: New Directions in Collaborative Anthropology
MONICA KONRAD 3
2. An Amazon Plant in Clinical Trial: Intersections of Knowledge
and Practice
FRANÇOISE BARBIRA-FREEDMAN 40
PaRt II. tRaNsaCtIONs aND BENEFIts 59
3. Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent
Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The Gambia
PAUL WENZEL GEISSLER, ANN KELLY, BABATUNDE
IMOUKHUEDE AND ROBERT POOL 61
4. Transacting Knowledge, Transplanting Organs: Collaborative
Scientific Partnerships in Mongolia
REBECCA EMPSON 86
PaRt III. CuRRENCIEs aND ImPERatIvEs 107
5. Currencies of Collaboration
MARILYN STRATHERN 109
6. Collaborative Imperatives: A Manifesto, of Sorts, for the
Reimagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter
DOUGLAS HOLMES AND GEORGE E. MARCUS 126
vi | Contents
PaRt Iv. REsEaRCh aND EthICs 145
7. Building Capacity: A Sri Lankan Perspective on Research,
Ethics and Accountability
ROBERT SIMPSON 147
8. Global Clinical Trials and the Contextualization of Research
ANN KELLY 164
PaRt v. aLLIaNCEs aND DIvERsItY 185
9. The Performance of Global Health R&D Alliances and
Interdisciplinary Research Approaches
SONJA MARJANOVIC 187
10. Partial Lineages in Diversity Research
AMADE M’CHAREK 205
PaRt vI. EXPERtIsEs aND attRIButIONs 223
11. Meeting Minds; Encountering Worlds: Sciences and Other
Expertises on the North Slope of Alaska
BARBARA BODENHORN 225
12. Recognizing Scholarly Subjects in the Politics of Nature:
Problematizing Collaboration in Southeast Asian Area Studies
CELIA LOWE 245
Afterword. Enabling Environments? Polyphony in 53
MONICA KONRAD 269
Notes on Contributors 283
Index 287
Preface
This book derives from an informal workshop ‘Global Science, International
Health and the Ethics of Collaborative Practice’ convened in 2005 by the
then newly formed PLACEB-O research group (Partners Linked Across Col-
laborations in Ethics and the Biosciences – Orbital) based at the Department
of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The workshop itself took
place at Girton College, Cambridge and I am grateful to all the participants
for their inspirational insights. Most of the original presenters have contrib-
uted to this volume. Following the workshop, I invited a number of scholars
working on related issues to write chapters specifically for this book: we are
further grateful to Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Barbara Bodenhorn, Rebecca
Empson, Doug Holmes, Celia Lowe and George E. Marcus for each of their
contributions. The manuscript was completed whilst I was involved with an
ESRC-funded project ‘International Science and Bioethics Collaborations’
awarded to the Universities of Cambridge, Durham and Sussex (2007–2010),
and I wish to take this opportunity to thank the UK Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC grant RES-062-23-0215) for grant funding, as do
project co-investigators Robert Simpson, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner and
Marilyn Strathern, and other associated members. Professor Nick White of
Oxford University has always inspired me with his intellectual generosity over
many engaging conversations about collaboration and global health. Thanks
go also to the reviewers for Berghahn for their constructive comments, and
to Ann Przyzycki for her constant support of this project, as well as Charlotte
Mosedale, Lauren Weiss and Ben Parker.
Monica Konrad
Cambridge, January 2011

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