The Ethics of Participation in Environmental Field Research

Inclusion, Collaboration, and Transformation
Herausgeber: Gibson, Lydia; Sauma, Julia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provokes new discussions on the fluidity of ethics and participation in environmental field research. It will interest students and researchers across natural and social sciences, as well as conservation policymakers and practitioners who consult and work with local communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781032343778
• ISBN-10: 103234377X
• Artikelnr.: 73530058

Autorenporträt

Lydia Gibson is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, USA. Julia Sauma is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Anthropological perspectives on environmental fieldwork ethics 1 The
disappearance of anthropology in participatory debates: The politics and
poetics of deceleration, motion, knowledge, and labour; 2 How and what we
observe: A brief introduction to theoretical perspectives in environmental
social sciences; PART II Ethnographic instances: Thick descriptions of the
ethical issues 3 Ethnographic instances: Ethnographic writing and the place
of colonial knowledge; 4 When all our friends have gone away: On intention,
abandonment, and attending to the assumptions of environmental fieldwork; 5
We don't trust you: On the interior lives of communities and collaborators
in environmental research; 6 Data sharing in environmental science: Making
unlikely violences visible; 7 Collaborations over wolf recovery:
Conservation in Maremma, central Italy; PART III Workshopping the problem:
Interviews with environmental anthropologists and interdisciplinary
scholars 8 Textual workshopping: The anti-product, unfixing, and rejection
of 'best-practice' in participatory environmental research; 9 'Who owns
these orangutans?' And other feral questions: A conversation with Liana
Chua; 10 Interdisciplinarity, betrayal, and the ethics and purpose of
(environmental) research: A conversation with Paige West; 11 Working
within: On attention, power, and play in environmental fieldwork - A
conversation with Vanessa Agard-Jones; 12 Distance, conflict of interest,
and sacrifice in environmental fieldwork: An interview with Sahil Nijhawan;
13 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;
14 There is, in fact, a procedure: Creating legacies in collaborative field
research - A conversation with Briggy; 15 Concluding discussion: Ending
with the anti-solution