Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378076%3A_____%2F23%3A00566333" target="_blank" >RIV/68378076:_____/23:00566333 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12839" target="_blank" >https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12839</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12839" target="_blank" >10.1111/area.12839</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research
Original language description
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namibia, and Vanuatu. Fundamentally, we explore fieldwork as a series of contested loyalties: loyalties to our different human and non-human research participants, to our commitments to academic rigour, and to the project of wildlife conservation itself, while reckoning with conservation's spotted (neo)colonial past. Our struggles and reflections illustrate, first, that practical research ethics do not predetermine forms of reciprocity. Second, while we need to choose our concealments carefully and follow the principle of not doing harm, we also have the responsibility to reveal social and environmental injustices. Third, we must acknowledge that as researchers we are complicit in the practices of human and non-human violence and exclusion that suffuse conservation. Finally, given how these responsibilities move the researcher beyond a position of innocence or neutrality, academic institutions should adjust their ethics support. This intervention highlights the need for greater openness about research challenges emerging from conflicting personal, ethical, and disciplinary loyalties, in order to facilitate greater cross-disciplinary understanding. Active engagement with these ethical questions through collaborative dialogue-based fora, both before and after fieldwork, would enable learning and consequently transform research practices.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF20_079%2F0017525" target="_blank" >EF20_079/0017525: Hunting the Unruly Pigs of the New Wild: An anthropology of recreational pig hunting</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Area
ISSN
0004-0894
e-ISSN
1475-4762
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
245-253
UT code for WoS article
000875632900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141420405