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Based on the notion of an impossible neutrality in social science research (Caratini, 2004; Fassin and Bensa, 2008; Hagberg and Ouattara, 2012; etc.), this issue of Anthropologie & développement will consider the challenges and potentials of explicitly engaged research projects in anthropology and qualitative sociology. If ethical and quality fieldwork research requires involvement and reflexivity (Ghasarian, 2002; Hermesse et al., 2011; Picco-li, 2013), and if an empirical anchorage does not mean a theoretical blind-ness or the absence of a tool for assessing social reality (Burawoy, 2009), the involvement we want to analyze pushes the debate a step further by simultaneously claiming the possibility of a committed public stance and rigorous scientific research. Beyond a simple argument, this issue aims to give researchers a voice regarding their practices of engagement and the challenges they encoun-ter. What are the potential problems in justifying the stances taken? How, if at all, do researchers manage to juggle their multiple identities (as re-searchers, actors, activists, spokespersons and mediators...)? How can one combine scientific production, activism, political positioning and public pronouncement?
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Piccoli, E., & Mazzocchetti, J. (2016). Methodological, Epistemological and Political Aspects of Engagement of Social Scientists. Anthropologie & développement, 44(1), 23-29. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/97234 (Original work published 2016)