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This book provokes new discussions on the fluidity of ethics and participation in environmental field research. It will interest students and researchers across natural and social sciences, as well as conservation policymakers and practitioners who consult and work with local communities.
List of contents
PART I Anthropological perspectives on environmental fieldwork ethics 1 The disappearance of anthropology in participatory debates: The politics and poetics of deceleration, motion, knowledge, and labour; 2 How and what we observe: A brief introduction to theoretical perspectives in environmental social sciences;
PART II Ethnographic instances: Thick descriptions of the ethical issues 3 Ethnographic instances: Ethnographic writing and the place of colonial knowledge; 4 When all our friends have gone away: On intention, abandonment, and attending to the assumptions of environmental fieldwork; 5 We don't trust you: On the interior lives of communities and collaborators in environmental research; 6 Data sharing in environmental science: Making unlikely violences visible; 7 Collaborations over wolf recovery: Conservation in Maremma, central Italy;
PART III Workshopping the problem: Interviews with environmental anthropologists and interdisciplinary scholars 8 Textual workshopping: The anti-product, unfixing, and rejection of 'best-practice' in participatory environmental research; 9 'Who owns these orangutans?' And other feral questions: A conversation with Liana Chua; 10 Interdisciplinarity, betrayal, and the ethics and purpose of (environmental) research: A conversation with Paige West; 11 Working within: On attention, power, and play in environmental fieldwork - A conversation with Vanessa Agard-Jones; 12 Distance, conflict of interest, and sacrifice in environmental fieldwork: An interview with Sahil Nijhawan; 13 We have so much to work with: The potential and failure of partnerships in the living forest - A conversation with Manoel Profeta Melo dos Santos; 14 There is, in fact, a procedure: Creating legacies in collaborative field research - A conversation with Briggy; 15 Concluding discussion: Ending with the anti-solution
About the author
Lydia Gibson is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, USA.
Julia Sauma is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
