The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Transactions, Relations, and Persons
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-404-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of ‘transacting knowledge’ and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Josephides, Lisette

Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustration

Introduction: The Ethics of Knowledge-Creation

Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and Lisette Josephides

PART I: NEGOTIATING AND TRANSACTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD

Chapter 1. Empathic Relations with Tamil Refugees: Challenging Morality and Calling for Ethics of Knowledge-Creation

Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Chapter 2. The Danger of Knowledge: Exercising Sameness, Bound to Differentiation

Giovanna Bacchiddu

Chapter 3. On the Shifting Ethics and Contexts of Knowledge Production

Tamara Kohn

PART II: THE ETHICS OF INDIRECT MEDIATED ETHNOGRAPHY

Chapter 4. Troubled Conjunctures: Ethnography, Psychotherapy and Transnational Social Fields

Laura Huttunen

Chapter 5. The Problems with Gossip: Reflections on the Ethics of Conducting Multi-sited Ethnographic Research

Tamsin Bradley

PART III: BIOETHICS, BIO-POLITICS, AND HUMANITY BEYOND THE LOCAL

Chapter 6. A Meditation on Knowledge Production by Personalized Genetic Testing

Kaja Finkler

Chapter 7. Biotechnology, Law and Some Problems of Knowing

Marit Melhuus

Chapter 8. Towards an Epistemology of Ethical Knowledge

Lisette Josephides

Afterword

Marilyn Strathern

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth is Professor in Social Anthropology at University College of Lillehammer, Norway, where she directs the Research Unit of Health, Culture and Identity, and Migration and Diversity Studies. Her research on Tamil refugees and more widely on asylum-seekers with concern for belonging, health and wellbeing engages issues of methodology, modes of knowledge, self and personhood, dwelling and humanism.

Josephides, Lisette
Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. She previously taught at the Universities of PNG (1984-6), Minnesota (1989-2007), and the London School of Economics (1986-8). The Production of Inequality (1985) and Melanesian Odysseys (2008) are her most important publications on her PNG fieldwork. Her current interests focus on cosmopolitanism, philosophical anthropology and issues of knowledge and the person. These interests are represented in her two recent edited volumes, We the Cosmopolitans (2014, co-edited with Alexandra Hall) and Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology (2015).

Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. She previously taught at the Universities of PNG (1984-6), Minnesota (1989-2007), and the London School of Economics (1986-8). The Production of Inequality (1985) and Melanesian Odysseys (2008) are her most important publications on her PNG fieldwork. Her current interests focus on cosmopolitanism, philosophical anthropology and issues of knowledge and the person. These interests are represented in her two recent edited volumes, We the Cosmopolitans (2014, co-edited with Alexandra Hall) and Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology (2015).