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Inequality and legitimacy: problematizing the production of social knowledge

Abstract

In the last 40 years, the social sciences and especially anthropology have gone through substantial changes. In this article, I reflect on questions and dilemmas related to the way of producing social research, especially through fieldwork in situations marked by large inequalities. These questions also relate to how to conceive of the representation of the findings and to authorship. Finally, they relate to the possibilities of the circulation of discourses.

Keywords:
Social research and inequality; Fieldwork; Authorship; Regulation of discourses

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