Resumo

MUNOZ MARTINEZ, Rubén  e  SALINAS BOLDO, Claudia. The crisis of the informant authority on ethnographic research. Covered methodologies and research on human right and vulnerable population: Two case studies in Mexico. Rev. interdiscip. estud. género Col. Méx. [online]. 2018, vol.4, e158.  Epub 19-Fev-2018. ISSN 2395-9185.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eg.v4i0.158.

Drawing upon two case studies from two different researches, both related to the field of sexual health, sexual citizenship and human rights, and both making different use of undercover investigation techniques, we discuss some of the reaches and limitations of methodological approaches not-based on informed consent. Two questions constitute the core of this work: Is there research that from the beginning, development and/or products, always complies with informed consent? And, if the unfinished nature of informed consent is a state of affairs and a research option, when do we make clear that a research is partially or totally undercover? Who does it? What for? The methodologies and their specific practices need to make visible and problematize, through the call to their transformation, the fields of ideologically configured social relations that constitute them.

Palavras-chave : undercover investigation; experimental methodologies; sexual health; sexual citizenship and discrimination.