Warrantless

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warrantless

contributed by: clemens

Have you got a warrant? The modern state is supposedly built on the rule of law. You own your own body. Habeas corpus. This extends to the sanctity of your home not to be searched by the authorities wantonly. “We have a warrant!” is the sound of a strong male voice knocking on your door. When you don’t respond the door will be busted in with a specially designed heavy metal rod with handle bars and uniformed men will spread through your house securing every room as choreographed.

Then before starting the interview, or the interrogation, you have the right to remain silent.

In social science practice this warrant thing is sorted through consent forms and ethical approval. This plus anonimity and an approved data protection plan relieves you from further bothering with ethics.

Of course it is good to realize (social) science operates as an arm of the state. Like drawing a line on a map, or seeing like a survey [http://www.heterogeneities.net/publications/Law2008SeeingLikeASurvey.pdf], reality is produced and other realities erased in the process. We are in the business world making, and sometimes(?) destroying.

By claiming a warrant, you enter into a certain format of justification for the way you plough a field site. It’s a way of entering a conversation,

Of course we don’t want to go out on a whim, hiding our (supposedly good) intentions, go on our extractive missions to return with anonymized insights. We do want to open ourselves for critique, for questioning.

The product does not come with a warranty. Or should we take it literally, this is not a chant of war, but a rant?

When we go out unwarranted, or warrantless, we may go unnoticed, but also not backed up by the authorities. We come as a person, answerable personally, not hiding behind institutions, forms, procedures. We stand for our acts, we claim work as intervention.

Or is this asking for forgiveness rather than permission?

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