Negotiating Research Ethics and Critical Research Approaches in Volatile Contexts - Detailseite

This seminar takes cue from a decolonial, indigenous critical methodological approach when investigating and reflecting upon challenges of research ethics in volatile contexts in transregional perspective. It aims to enable students to be able to

·         critically reflect upon research ethics as central component of a self-reflective research design process,

·         engage with one’s own positionality and spatiality as well as with power and volatility in the Global North as well as Global South

·         draft a research ethics strategy and coping mechanisms

when undertaking field research.

In a first seminar bloc we engage with key readings and audio podcasts from scholars from a diverse disciplinary and topic-wise background. In a final seminar bloc, students will present their own take on how to negotiate research ethics and one’s own political and personal geography in sessions with topic tables / world café as well as with museum walks.

Suggested Readings:

·         Bano, Castillo, Holz and Fleschenberg (2023): Negotiating Research Ethics, Special Issue with International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Winter 22/Spring 23

·         Chilisa, 2012: Indigenous Research Methodologies, London et al.: Sage

·         Hammett, 2015: Research and Fieldwork in Develoment, London et al.: Routledge

·         Nordstrom/Robben, 1995: Fieldwork under Fire, Berkeley: University of California Press

·         Smith, 2017: Decolonizing Methodologies – Research and Indigenous Peoples, London et al: Zed Books