Kirsten Bell
anthropologist, not the actress.
Papers on ethics and morality
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2023 (with LL Wynn). Research ethics committees, ethnographers and imaginations of risk. Ethnography, 24(4): 457-604.
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2019. Commentary: Solidarity and immorality or empathy and ambivalence? Current Anthropology, 60(3).
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2019. The 'problem' of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics. Ethnography, 20(1): 8-26.
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2018. Moral anthropology and apriori enunciations. In B. Kapferer & Marina Gold (eds), Moral Anthropology: A Critique. Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis. New York: Berghahn.
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2017 (with Ciara Kierans). Cultivating ambivalence: Methodological considerations for anthropology. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(2): 23-44.
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2016. Commentary: Whither the AAA Code of Ethics? Current Anthropology, 57(4).
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2016. The more things change, the more they stay the same: the TCPS2 and the institutional ethical oversight of social science research in Canada. In W. van den Hoonaard and A. Hamilton (eds), The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research Ethics Review. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 189-205. (The book is available for purchase here)
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2014. Resisting commensurability: Against informed consent as an anthropological virtue. American Anthropologist, 116(3): 511-522. (Read the accompanying AAA Ethics Blog piece here)
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2014 (with Denielle Elliott) Editorial. Censorship in the name of ethics: Critical public health research in the age of human subjects regulation. Critical Public Health, 24(4): 385-391.
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2012 (with Amy Salmon) Good intentions and dangerous assumptions: Research ethics committees and illicit drug use research. Research Ethics, 8(4): 191-199.
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2011. (with Amy Salmon) What women who use drugs have to say about ethical research: Findings of an exploratory qualitative study. JERHRE: Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 6(4): 84-98.