Hide those Facts I must not see: Affects, the visible, and the speakable in social science research

Contrary to what can generally be observed in quantitative studies, for which the field is still usually thought to be a black box whose closure is a condition for the pursuit of scientific work, reflexive and critical revisits of ethnographic studies have become established conditions of their validity. The literature produced on this theme has led researchers to question the effects of their presence on the groups they study. Some ethnographers have taken a slightly less classic approach, reversing the perspective by acknowledging that ethnography also inevitably disturbs the person doing it. Critical and reflexive revisits of ethnographic studies have accordingly become a sort of requirement. This issue is an opportunity to broaden the perspective. It shows that the exclusion, concealment or even blindness to certain facts do indeed result from discomfort and endangerment. This discomfort results from an ethical, moral, emotional, affective destabilization in the face of situations that offend the sense of justice and correctness. It is therefore a question of renewing the invitation to reintroduce the affects and the disturbances in the investigation, as experienced by the investigator.