The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
Transactions, Relations, and Persons
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2017
272 pages
978-1-78533-405-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Anthropology has long been keenly aware of the complicated ethical terrain of fieldwork, knowledge-acquisition and -creation, and the representation, dissemination, and use(s) of that knowledge. The chapters here though are a worthy contribution to that disciplinary self-reflection, which-as a form of knowledge itself-can never be completed or exhausted." ? Anthropology Review Database"Drawing from contexts of migration and biomedicine, this compelling collection offers timely contributions to current debates on the anthropology of knowledge, and tackles the challenging question of knowledge production during fieldwork, primarily in contexts of cultural difference and diversity." ? Astrid Bochow, University of Goettingen
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 2 Figures; 1 Tables, unspecified
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-405-4 (9781785334054)
DOI
10.3167/9781785334047
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Transactions, Relations, and Persons
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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).
Content
List of Illustration
Introduction: The Ethics of Knowledge-Creation
Anne Sigfrid Gronseth 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 Gronseth
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
Introduction: The Ethics of Knowledge-Creation
Anne Sigfrid Gronseth 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 Gronseth
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
