Florence Weber

A entrevista, a pesquisa e o íntimo, ou por que censurar seu diário de campo?

The field diary is part of the ethnographers job. It is merely a set of sparse heterogeneous notes. Its publication, respecting a chronological classification, creates the Romanesque fiction of an ethnographer-narrator. Censuring the publication of the diary implies that the original writing will not be censured. The censured materials do not relate to issues of privacy, but to the not (yet) intelligible.

Lares de cuidado e linhas de sucessão: algumas indicações etnográficas na França, hoje

By looking at three ethnographic cases, the author explores discrepancies between French notions of paternity and maternity in their legal and ideological aspects, between fathering and mothering in their moral and affective dimensions and between different aspects of caring in the cases of dependent children and of aging parents. The author analyzes these discrepancies from the triple point of view of legal responsibility (who should pay), economic transactions (who gives and receives unpaid and paid care) and of moral feeling (feelings of natural linkage, sense of duty, elective love and quotidian, constructed feeling). She uses the concepts of households of care and lines of transmission to show how the economic and affective dimensions of kinship are connected, trying to understand why French social policies have recently invented a salaried status for caring daughters, but none for caring mothers.

Towards a digital architecture of reflexive ethnographic data

Why and how should we auto-archive reflexive ethnographic data? Ethnography is based on a graphic method of written and visual notations, traditionally using notebooks. Reflexive ethnographers have been trained to separate their notebooks in two parts: the concise fieldwork log recording dates, places and events, and the research log putting down emotions and theoretical considerations. In addition, they collect varied documents coming from the field. The whole set makes the scientific value of ethnographic analyses, along with peer value process. My team develops a digital data base where “cases” within “settings” are defined by research objects and questions, and where documents are classified in three levels of confidentiality according to personal data protection and copyrights.

« Handicap psychique » : nouveaux droits ?

Une politique publique n’existe que si elle est appliquee, autrement dit que si une mobilisation des professionnels emerge a tous les niveaux pour la faire exister. Elle suppose la mise en place d’une chaine de decision, depuis la demande rarement spontanee d’ouverture des droits, l’examen des demandes qui separe les beneficiaires des « recales », le calcul des moyens alloues aux beneficiaires, c’est-a-dire aussi ou surtout au champ professionnel charge de les prendre [...]

La DéontoLogie Ethnographique À l’Épreuve du Documentaire

This article offers a comparison of the legal suits filed by the interviewees against the director of the documentary Être et avoir (to have and to be) with the rights of interviewees in ethnographic investigations, focusing particularly on image copyrights and labor law. To say that interviewees contribute to such investigations in anonymity does not solve the main problem - they are crucial to the investigation, marginal to the analysis, and then are assigned no publication credits. While information about the interviewees should remain confidential, this article argues, that contribution and role in the making of a publication should not be ignored.