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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ethics of participation in environmental field research
    sub title: inclusion, collaboration and transformation
  name:
    name part: Gibson, Lydia
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sauma, Julia
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (242 pages).
  abstract: Local participation is increasingly seen as a central and ethical part of environmental research. As such, many environmental efforts are becoming increasingly participatory. Participation, as a string of literature has shown, has many political, economic, social, and epistemic consequences, and ethics is fluid, polyvalent, and contextual. 'Right is right, wrong is wrong' is dangerous rhetoric that centres western experiences and forecloses the myriad realities and relations bundled within and forced upon marginalised experiences. Both participation and ethics - as concepts and praxis - cast decades-long shadows over field research (particularly in anthropology), yet much of these discussions are left at the threshold of interdisciplinary spaces, where participation, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, and co-production are brought in to sanitise and legitimise environmental actions. Where are our lessons learned and what ought we to make of their absence? The first half of this volume offers ethnographic examples that allow us to begin to ask whether participation (in the capitalist machinery and colonial legacies of academic knowledge) is ever even ethical. The second half of the book is dedicated to anti-solutions: refusals to define problems and approaches in fixed, closed terms from which equations, calculations, and solutions can be derived.This book provokes important new discussions about ethical participation in environmental field research by bringing to the fore the fluid nature of both ethics and participation. The volume aims to provide critical intervention for students and researchers across natural and social sciences whose fieldwork includes engagement with local communities and stakeholders, as well as conservation policymakers and practitioners who consult and work with local communities.
  note: edited by Lydia Gibson, Julia Sauma.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
    topic: Research
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
    topic: Research
  classification: GE70 .E84 2026
  classification: 333.7072
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research and teaching in environmental studies
  identifier: 9781003321804 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781040400050
  identifier: 1040400051
  identifier: 1003321801
  identifier: 9781040400012
  identifier: 1040400019
  identifier: 9781003321804 Taylor & Francis
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 250515
    record change date: 20250907005751.3
    record identifier: in00005662528
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng