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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812329003321

Titolo

The ethics of knowledge-creation : transactions, relations, and persons / / edited by Lisette Josephides and Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

ISBN

1-78533-405-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Methodology & history in anthropology ; ; Volume 31

Disciplina

306.4/2

Soggetti

Knowledge, Sociology of

Knowledge management - Moral and social aspects

Research - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the ethics of knowledge-creation / Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and Lisette Josephides -- Empathic relations with Tamil refugees : challenging morality and calling for ethics of knowledge-creation / Anne Sigfrid Grønseth -- The danger of knowledge : exercising sameness, bound to differentiation / Giovanna Bacchiddu -- On the shifting ethics and contexts of knowledge production / Tamara Kohn -- Troubled conjunctures : ethnography, psychotherapy and transnational -- Social fields / Laura Huttunen -- The problems with gossip : reflections on the ethics of conducting multi-sited ethnographic research / Tamsin Bradley -- A meditation on knowledge production by personalized genetic testing / Kaja Finkler -- Biotechnology, law and some problems of knowing / Marit Melhuus -- Towards an epistemology of ethical knowledge / Lisette Josephides -- Afterword / Marilyn Strathern.

Sommario/riassunto

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.