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

Anmerkung Prüfung:

Option 1:

o   Preparing a poster and brief reading material for a “Thementisch” for a specific case study on research ethics dilemma, including a brief input presentation of 5min plus moderation (see Etherpad below for registration)

o   Writing an annotated bibliography for the selected case study of an ethics dilemma (3 pages, grey literature = max. 10%, plus 1 page with self-reflection)

Option 2:

o   Preparing a text discussion for a World Café Table, including a brief input presentation of 5min., thesis paper plus moderation related to the world café texts and one issue presented there (see Etherpad below for registration)

o   Writing a tentative research design outline on research ethics and risk assessment or negotiating positionality (3 pages, without references, plus 1 page of self-reflection)

M6 + M8: HA, PO, MU

(MU: Termine nach Absprache, voraussichtl. 24.-28.7. und letzte Semesterferienwoche im Oktober)