Syvertsen Jennifer L
Jennifer L. Syvertsen, Ph.D., MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Her research and teaching interests broadly include global health, the construction of public health epidemics, access to health care, subjectivity, and collaborative methodologies.
Hum Organ. 2020 Summer;79(2):83-94. doi: 10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.83.
Sharing our research with participants and communities is a standard and critically important ethical practice in anthropology, but do we use such opportunities to their full potential? In this article, I reflect on the possibilities generated by a community dissemination event to share my research with men who have sex with men and engage in sex work in Kisumu, Kenya. Drawing on Arjun Apaddurai's concept of an "ethics of possibility" that pushes beyond ordinary ethical practice, I reflect upon engagement with participants in the research process and advocate for greater emphasis on research dissemination events as a strategy to make research more meaningful to communities. Although my project was initially framed around HIV, what emerged were men's desire for spirituality, belonging, and new possibilities of inclusive citizenship that better attend to men's health and well-being. Research dissemination creates a critical space to generate ethnographic insight and guide theoretically rich applied health research.
与参与者和社区分享我们的研究成果是人类学领域一项标准且至关重要的道德实践,但我们是否充分利用了这些机会呢?在本文中,我思考了一次社区传播活动所带来的可能性,此次活动旨在与肯尼亚基苏木与男性发生性行为且从事性工作的男性分享我的研究。借鉴阿君·阿帕杜莱的“可能性伦理”概念,该概念超越了普通的道德实践,我反思了在研究过程中与参与者的互动,并主张更加强调研究传播活动,以此作为让研究对社区更具意义的一种策略。尽管我的项目最初围绕着艾滋病展开,但结果发现男性对灵性、归属感以及包容性公民身份的新可能性有着渴望,这些能更好地关注男性的健康和福祉。研究传播创造了一个关键空间,以产生人种志洞察力并指导理论丰富的应用健康研究。