The ethics of participation in environmental field research : inclusion, collaboration and transformation / edited by Lydia Gibson and Julia Sauma.
| Other author | Gibson, Lydia, editor. |
| Other author | Sauma, Julia, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026. |
| Description | xiv, 245 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Inclusion, collaboration and transformation |
| Series | Research and teaching in Environmental Studies Research and teaching in environmental studies. ^A1429509 |
| Contents | Part 1. The disappearance of anthropology in participatory debates: The politics and poetics of deceleration, motion, knowledge, and labour -- How and what we observe: A brief introduction to theoretical perspectives in environmental social sciences -- Part 2. Ethnographic Instances: Ethnographic writing and the place of colonial knowledge -- When all our friends have gone away: On intention, abandonment and attending to the assumptions of environmental fieldwork -- We don't trust you: On the interior lives of communities and collaborators in environmental research -- Data sharing in environmental science: Making unlikely violences visible -- Collaborations over wolf recovery and conservation in Maremma, Central Italy -- Part 3. Textual workshopping: The anti-product, unfixing, and rejection of "best-practice" in participatory environmental research -- Who owns these orangutans? And other troubling questions: An interview with Liana Chua -- Interdisciplinarity, betrayal, and the ethics and purpose of (environmental) research: A conversation with Paige West -- Working within: On attention, power and play in environmental fieldwork -- a conversation with Vanessa Agard-Jones -- Distance, conflict of Interest, and sacrifice in environmental fieldwork: An interview with Sahil Nijhawan -- We have so much to work with: The potential and failure of partnerships in the living forest -- a conversation with Manoel Profeta Melo dos Santos -- There is, in fact, a procedure: Creating legacies in collaborative field research -- a conversation with Oral "Briggy" White -- Concluding discussion: Ending with the anti-solution |
| Abstract | "This book provokes important new discussions about ethical participation in environmental field research by bringing to the fore the fluid nature of both ethics and participation. Local participation is increasingly seen as a central and ethical part of environmental research; as such, many environmental efforts are becoming increasingly participatory. Participation, as a string of literature has shown, has many political, economic, social, and epistemic consequences, and ethics is fluid, polyvalent, and contextual. "Right is right, wrong is wrong" is dangerous rhetoric that centres western experiences and forecloses the myriad realities and relations bundled within and forced upon marginalised experiences. Both participation and ethics - as concepts and praxis - cast decades-long shadows over field research (particularly in anthropology), yet much of these discussions are left at the threshold of interdisciplinary spaces, where participation, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, co-production are brought in to sanitise and legitimise environmental actions. Where are our lessons learned and what ought we to make of their absence? The first half of this volume offers ethnographic examples that allow us to begin to ask whether participation (in the capitalist machinery and colonial legacies of academic knowledge) is ever even ethical. The second half of the book is dedicated to anti-solutions: refusals to define problems and approaches in fixed, closed terms from which equations, calculations, and solutions can be derived. This book will be of great interest to all students and researchers across natural and social sciences whose fieldwork includes engagement with local communities and stakeholders, as well as conservation policymakers and practitioners who consult and work with local communities"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Ethics of participation in environmental field research Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026 9781003321804 |
| LCCN | 2025007939 |
| ISBN | 9781032343754 |
| ISBN | 9781032343778 hardcover |
| ISBN | 103234377X hardcover |
| ISBN | 1032343753 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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