AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Beyond an affaire: managing ethnography1.1. An article and its afterlife: reputation management in action1.2. Engaging with the trouble: ethnography, academia, and society1.3. Writing this book: set-up and chaptersChapter 2. Doing ethnography: an approach, not a method2.1. Ethnography as relational and processual2.2. Ethnography beyond anthropology2.3. Ethnography in a changing world2.4. Conclusion: epistemological pluralityChapter 3. Research ethics: problems with regulation3.1. Ethical self-regulation in anthropology3.2. Enforceable ethics: state governance and beyond3.3. Conclusion: doing ethics differentlyChapter 4. The complexities of doing no harm and informed consent4.1. Doing no harm: power and ethos4.2. Informed consent: the forms4.3. Informed consent: the principle4.4. Ethnography, concealment, and publication4.5. Conclusion: ethical dilemmasChapter 5. Open Science and replication: trust, distrust, and transparency5.1. The Open Science movement: from utopia to dystopia?5.2. The trouble with transparency5.3. The replication crisis: what does it mean?5.4. Ethnography, replication, and openness5.5. Conclusion: another kind of opennessChapter 6. Constructing integrity: codification in context6.1. Public scandals and the emergence of integrity codes6.2. Constructing integrity: comparing the codes6.3. Policy-making: projectification and integrity6.4. Conclusion: from ethics to commerceChapter 7. Anonymity, positionality, and field notes: integrity in practice7.1. Contesting anonymity: a turn to disclosure?7.2. Positionality and substance: relations in process7.3. The problem with sharing field notes7.4. Conclusion: a case-by-case approachChapter 8. Academic freedom: scholarship and politics8.1. A diversity of perspectives: politicising the academy8.2. Funding and employment8.3. External threats and internal harassment8.4. Israel/Palestine: academic freedom in action8.5. Conclusion: acting with responsibilityChapter 9. Conclusion: dilemmas and responsibilities9.1. Ethics, integrity, and power9.2. Doing ethics and integrity differently9.3. Academic freedom: ethnography and beyondNotesReferencesTimely critique of the expanding institutional control over academic research and its impact on ethnographic practiceIn recent decades, academic research has come under increasing institutional surveillance and control. Doing Ethnography traces the rise of ethical review procedures, open science mandates, and integrity protocols, examining how these developments shape ethnographic practice. It critically explores key themes such as doing no harm, informed consent, transparency, anonymity, researcher positionality, and the sharing of field notes.The book argues that contemporary academia often enforces universal, bureaucratic forms of regulatory ethics. Rooted in quantitative and (post-)positivist paradigms, these frameworks frequently clash with ethnography’s interpretive, intersubjective, and immersive fieldwork approach. In response, it calls for a situated, context-sensitive ethics of care attuned to the specificities of ethnographic engagement. Ultimately, Doing Ethnography offers both a critical reflection on institutional power and a plea to recognise and sustain the epistemic diversity on which academic freedom depends.In recent decades, academic research has come under increasing institutional surveillance and control. Doing Ethnography traces the rise of ethical review procedures, open science mandates, and integrity protocols, examining how these developments shape ethnographic practice. It critically explores key themes such as doing no harm, informed consent, transparency, anonymity, researcher positionality, and the sharing of field notes.The book argues that contemporary academia often enforces universal, bureaucratic forms of regulatory ethics. Rooted in quantitative and (post-)positivist paradigms, these frameworks frequently clash with ethnography’s interpretive, intersubjective, and immersive fieldwork approach. In response, it calls for a situated, context-sensitive ethics of care attuned to the specificities of ethnographic engagement. Ultimately, Doing Ethnography offers both a critical reflection on institutional power and a plea to recognise and sustain the epistemic diversity on which academic freedom depends.