Approaching Positionality in Research on Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Magaya, Sinoxolo; Fitchett, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99411-2_7

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“…They found that in the United States, distributive justice that focuses on fence-line communities of colour was more prevalent based on decades of grassroots activism, while in Scotland, procedural justice that focused on inclusion in decision making was more common, based on generations of regional exclusion from the ruling state (Blue et al 2021; also see Holifield et al 2009). Expertise, common sense, and internal bias are all based in researcher's positionality within existing cultural, social, geographic, and professional structures, and disclosing their particularities allows for more transparency and accountability (Harding 1995;Magaya and Fitchett 2022;Wijekoon and Peter 2022).…”

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Models of justice evoked in published scientific studies of plastic pollution

Liboiron

Earles

et al. 2023

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An exponentially growing body of international research engages with plastic pollution using different ideas on the right ways to frame, research, and intervene in the problem. The premise of this study is that all scientists work with understandings of what is right and wrong and why that is (models of justice) in their research, even when it is not explicitly stated, reflected upon, or a conscious part of the discussion. We surveyed 755 published articles on marine debris and plastic chemical additives and found that all evoked at least one model of justice, and often more. The most routinely used models included: developmental justice, distributive justice, and procedural justice. More rarely, we found appeals to environment-first justice and Indigenous sovereignty. While occasionally these multiple models worked synergistically, more often they conflicted. Our findings ground a call for fellow researchers to use a more intentional and systematic approach to evoking models of justice in our work. Our goal is to offer descriptions and insights about models of justice that are already being deployed to increase the sophistication of the ethical and normative orientations of our research and our fields, both in plastic pollution sciences and beyond.

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