The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Transactions, Relations, and Persons

Lisette Josephides, Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, Lisette Josephides, Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781785334047
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785334054
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of 'transacting knowledge' and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

Table of contents

• The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
• Part I. Negotiating and Transacting Knowledge in the Field
• Chapter 1. Empathic Relations with Tamil Refugees
• Chapter 2. The Danger of Knowledge
• Chapter 3. On the Shifting Ethics and Contexts of Knowledge Production
• Part II. The Ethics of Indirect Mediated Ethnography
• Chapter 4. Troubled Conjunctures
• Chapter 5. The Problems with Gossip
• Part III. Bioethics, Bio-politics and Humanity Beyond the Local
• Chapter 6. A Meditation on Knowledge Production by Personalized Genetic Testing
• Chapter 7. Biotechnology, Law and Some Problems of Knowing
• Chapter 8. Towards an Epistemology of Ethical Knowledge
• Afterword
• Index