The Ethics of Participation in Environmental Field Research: Inclusion, Collaboration, and Transformation [Paperback]

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.

Lydia Gibson is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, USA.

Julia Sauma is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

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 dont 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 wilcÎ