Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1177/09562478221114024

Yael Padan, T. Ndezi, J. Rendell

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Abstract

This paper reflects on the ethics of research and knowledge co-production aimed at addressing urban inequality. It draws on work within the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) programme, which aimed to co-produce knowledge to activate transformation. We employ a lens of feminist care ethics to examine ethical challenges in research partnerships, which derive from interrelated layers of power asymmetry and inequality. We focus on ethical dilemmas that emerged during the planning stage of research work led by the NGO Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI), Tanzania, in collaboration with University College London’s Institute of Global Prosperity (IGP). We argue that contextualizing the value of knowledge co-production in generating transformation in the long term reveals a necessity for simultaneously addressing the immediate needs of intersectionally marginalized research participants. We suggest that ethical awareness of both long- and short-term modes of “caring for” could better support initiatives for addressing urban inequalities in context.

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谨慎研究:共同设计焦点小组讨论中的伦理困境

本文对旨在解决城市不平等问题的研究和知识合作生产的伦理进行了反思。它借鉴了“以知识为行动促进城市平等”(KNOW)项目的工作成果，该项目旨在共同生产知识以激活转型。我们采用女权主义关怀伦理的视角来审视研究伙伴关系中的伦理挑战，这些挑战源于相互关联的权力不对称和不平等层面。我们重点关注坦桑尼亚非政府组织社区倡议中心(CCI)与伦敦大学学院全球繁荣研究所(IGP)合作领导的研究工作规划阶段出现的伦理困境。我们认为，从长期来看，知识合作生产在产生转型中的价值背景揭示了同时解决交叉边缘化研究参与者的直接需求的必要性。我们认为，对长期和短期“照顾”模式的道德意识可以更好地支持解决城市不平等问题的举措。

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Environment and Urbanization Multiple-

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7.50

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期刊介绍： Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. Most of the papers it publishes are written by authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese, as well as English - and if accepted for publication, the journal arranges for their translation into English. The journal is also unusual in the proportion of its papers that are written by practitioners.