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Difficult Subjects in Anthropology

Ethnography and the Limits of Participant Solidarity

Amir Massoumian and Dan Nightingale

252 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-042-8 $0.00/£0.00 / Hb / Published (January 2027)


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I greatly enjoyed reading the book, it is a timely volume that sheds an important new light on the relation between anthropology and the people we study in times of increasingly complex ethical entanglements. Rik Adriaans, University College London

I very much enjoyed reading this book. It is ambitious, well-informed, engaging and pushing anthropology to address an increasingly obvious blind spot in both its self-apprehension and the work it does. This will be essential reading both for those seeking to do work on difficult subjects, as well as those trying to understand where anthropology should go from here. Daniel Souleles, Copenhagen Business School

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Exploring ethnographic encounters that challenge anthropology’s deepest commitments, this book develops a diagnostic framework for situations in which collaboration becomes ethically impossible, solidarity risks complicity, and reflexivity intensifies rather than resolves the tensions of fieldwork. Drawing on research with far-right communities in London and on HPV and COVID vaccination in Dublin, it examines the limits of empathy, dialogue, and taking participants seriously when the familiar becomes strange within the anthropologist’s own society. Rather than offering prescriptions or straightforward resolutions, the book opens new pathways for researchers studying difficult subjects.

Amir Massoumian is Senior Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at SOAS University of London. He has also worked as a Research Fellow on the Archives of Solidarity project which combined ethnographic research and creative practice to explore asylum, migration and local histories of support around Napier Barracks.

Dan Nightingale is a digital and medical anthropologist, currently employed as a UKRI Metascience Research Fellow at University College London. He has also worked on Research Culture in UK Higher Education, interactional expertise and leadership, and predictive analytics in local government.

Subject: Anthropology (General)Theory and MethodologySociology


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