2019
DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2019.1616107
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Secrecy, coercion and deception in research on ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’

Abstract: This article calls for more understanding of the ethical challenges and dilemmas that arise as a result of state involvement in academic research on 'terrorism' and 'extremism'. It suggests that researchers and research institutions need to be more attentive to the possibilities of co-option, compromise, conflict of interests and other ethical issues. The paper empirically examines the relationship between academic researchers and the security state. It highlights three key ways in which ethical and profession… Show more

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“…6 However, high risk and/or unethical research is not an inevitable facet of terrorism research. 7 Importantly, we do not believe that unethical research is widespread, as has been recently stated, 8 in contemporary terrorism studies. Rigorous, ethical, and low risk data collection is a possibility, 9 and is in actual fact, the norm.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…6 However, high risk and/or unethical research is not an inevitable facet of terrorism research. 7 Importantly, we do not believe that unethical research is widespread, as has been recently stated, 8 in contemporary terrorism studies. Rigorous, ethical, and low risk data collection is a possibility, 9 and is in actual fact, the norm.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…6 However, high risk and/or unethical research is not an inevitable facet of terrorism research. 7 Importantly, we do not believe that unethical research is widespread, as has been recently stated, 8 in contemporary terrorism studies. Rigorous, ethical, and low risk data collection is a possibility, 9 and is in actual fact the norm.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…Various scholars have highlighted how these imaginations of risk can prevent important research from advancing, particularly in the humanities, social sciences, and fields using community-based participatory research methods, such as the creative arts (e.g. Ferris et al, 2021; Massoumi et al, 2020; Sluka, 2020; Tamariz et al, 2015).…”
Section: The Epistemology Of the Ethics Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%