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This essay aims to stimulate debate by proposing that the imposition of ill-conceived research protocols by universities and grant giving institutions not only blocks the kind of personal contact between researchers and subjects that makes for insightful findings, but actually imperils the researchers themselves. The protocols are meant to protect research subjects from harm, but this goal is a far more complex and difficult undertaking than those imposing these protocols seem to grasp. In particular, ethics administrators’ focus on obtaining ‘informed consent’ underscores their lack of direct experience with the full process of research and dissemination of findings because the decisive point that bears on the safety and happiness of research subjects is not the moment when these people accept the fieldworker’s invitation to share their thoughts and experiences. Rather, it is the inevitably difficult decisions made by researchers regarding how much of the material they have collected can actually be published. Resumen: Nuevos desafios para investigadores de campo en el estudio de America Latina y del Caribe Este ensayo argumenta que las instituciones universitarias y de financiamiento academico imponen protocolos de investigacion inadecuados que no solo impiden el tipo de contacto entre investigadores y sujetos que generan resultados interesantes, sino que ademas ponen en peligro a los mismos investigadores. Los protocolos estan disenados para proteger a los sujetos de investigacion de cualquier peligro, pero aquel objetivo es mucho mas complejo y dificil realizar de lo que los administrando los protocoles aparentemente entienden. La importancia que los administradores de la etica academica le otorgan al ‘consentimiento informado’ pone en evidencia su falta de experiencia directa con la totalidad del proceso de investigacion y de difusion de resultados. Lo que realmente determina la seguridad y el nivel de felicidad del sujeto de investigacion no es el momento en que este acepta ser parte de la investigacion, sino que son las siempre dificil decisiones que toma el investigador al decidir que material conviene, o no, publicar.

New Challenges for Fieldworkers in Latin American and Caribbean Studies