Afterword: The Ethics of Risk, Power, and Representation

Swauger, Melissa

doi:10.1007/s11133-011-9201-5

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“…We have found that these uncertainties are not fully addressed by formal ethical guidelines, and are not necessarily resolved by adhering to them. Indeed, ethical considerations are highly connected to uncertainty, since if there was certainty about the nature of situations, we would likely not have ethical issues (Swauger 2011). …”

Section: Social Movement Research and Research Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building

Cordner

Ciplet

Brown

et al. 2012

Social Movement Studies

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Community-engaged research on environmental problems has reshaped researcher-participant relationships, academic-community interaction, and the role of community partners in human subjects protection and ethical oversight. We draw on our own and others’ research collaborations with environmental health and justice social movement organizations to discuss the ethical concerns that emerge in community-engaged research. In this paper we introduce the concept of reflexive research ethics: ethical guidelines and decision-making principles that depend on continual reflexivity concerning the relationships between researchers and participants. Seeing ethics in this way can help scientists conduct research that simultaneously achieves a high level of professional conduct and protects the rights, well-being, and autonomy of both researchers and the multiple publics affected by research. We highlight our research with community-based organizations in Massachusetts, California, and Alaska, and discuss the potential impacts of the community or social movement on the research process and the potential impacts of research on community or social movement goals. We conclude by discussing ways in which the ethical concerns that surface in community-engaged research have led to advances in ethical research practices. This type of work raises ethical questions whose answers are broadly relevant for social movement, environmental, and public health scholars.

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Section: Social Movement Research and Research Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building

Cordner

Ciplet

Brown

et al. 2012

Social Movement Studies

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“…All depends on how the relationship with a participant develops, but also on how participants are embedded in their political, social and cultural environment. In turn, it is hard to assess (and thus minimise) the forms of harm that might result from research (Brooks, 2013;Clark and Sharf, 2007;Swauger, 2011). We can certainly prepare ourselves by gaining knowledge about the field site we enter, about the participants and existing factions (Grant, 2016).…”

Section: Unpredictability In Research Interviews: the Questions Of Etmentioning

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Harm, change and unpredictability: the ethics of interviews in conflict research

Kostovicova

Knott

2020

Qualitative Research

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Conceiving of interviews as relationships of knowledge creation involving a researcher and a research participant, we engage with the ethical implications of the unpredictabilities of this relationship when conducting research in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Through a conservative application of the precautionary principle that prohibits change of all involved in the research process, presuming change (always) implies harm, scholars to date have overlooked the ethical challenges that stem from the unpredictability of the interview method. In turn, this perspective has limited our ability to capture and mitigate possible forms of harm, undermining the legitimacy and appropriateness of existing ethical guidelines. We argue for a deliberative and iterative approach to understandings of harm and harm thresholds in interview research. This argument draws on recent debates on the precautionary principle in natural sciences, which address the unpredictabilities of research, allowing us to think about change in ways that is ethical.

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“…Rather, the protocol is intentionally flexible-it is formed during and changes throughout the study. Thus, the requirement to structure a strict predetermined protocol is not only impossible, it is also inappropriate and impairs the ability to conduct research in many disciplines (Librett & Perrone, 2010;Marzano, 2007;Swauger, 2009Swauger, , 2011.…”

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Ethics Review Boards for Research With Human Participants: Past, Present, and Future

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The debate around ethics review boards (IRBs) has assumed an increasingly central place in academic practice and discourse. In this article, we summarize a unique workshop (study-group) that convened at the University of Haifa, attended by 27 academics from around the globe, representing nine countries in four continents. The participants presented data and points of view, which served as the basis for an open, interdisciplinary discussion. The group developed a set of recommendations, including working toward a transition from a review system to an advisory and validation system; focusing on respectful research approach to participants, rather than “ethical” research; building a procedure that focuses on feedback, rather than the process itself; recognizing that a unified examination need not necessarily be standardized; and constructing a feedback procedure in which researchers can respond to the review of their research.

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Afterword: The Ethics of Risk, Power, and Representation

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building

Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building

Harm, change and unpredictability: the ethics of interviews in conflict research

Ethics Review Boards for Research With Human Participants: Past, Present, and Future

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