The dust-up reveals anxieties that go beyond the censure of Ms. Goffman, opening a fresh debate over longstanding dilemmas of ethnographic research: the ethical boundaries of fieldwork, the tension between data transparency and subjects' privacy, and the reliability of one ethnographer's subjective account of a social world.
Topics include methodological controversies, debates about transparency, human subjects protocols and research ethics, interviewing techniques, ethnography, focus groups, comparative historical case studies/archival research, and write-up of qualitative information collected from the field.
The UK prime minister has made tax and transparency key subjects for next month's summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, but this year's Africa Progress Panel report, Equity in Extractives, criticises the rich countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelOECDnt (OECD) for their failure to strengthen disclosure standards.
As de facto leader of the bank, China will need to be seen as being a leading advocate not only for the development process and the alleviation of poverty, but also best international practices in good governance, environmental compliance, anti-corruption initiatives, and transparency -- subjects which are not generally associated with Chinese political and business practices.
That makes corporate transparency a subject our political parties should include in their manifestos.
The administration's proposal is close to the legislation in the House, requiring most derivatives trades to go through clearinghouses to bring transparency, and subjecting financial firms dealing in the instruments to new capital requirements.
Behind the scenes here, again you have to almost pinch yourself to say it, quasi-dictatorial governments from Asia find themselves in a position to lecture the Nato countries on redistribution, on the quality of leadership, and business transparency - a subject the Japanese finance minister also raised with me just now.
Blockchain Future States embodies the same transparency its subject promotes.
They must therefore be conducted "with the highest possible level of transparency" and subject to parliamentary oversight.
(Full disclosure: I was invited as a speaker on the transparency and technology subjects).
He creates these translucent characters by playing with the transparency of his subjects' silhouettes, so they blend in with their backgrounds.
