Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. She previously taught at the Universities of PNG (1984-6), Minnesota (1989-2007), and the London School of Economics (1986-8). The Production of Inequality (1985) and Melanesian Odysseys (2008) are her most important publications on her PNG fieldwork. Her current interests focus on cosmopolitanism, philosophical anthropology and issues of knowledge and the person. These interests are represented in her two recent edited volumes, We the Cosmopolitans (2014, co-edited with Alexandra Hall) and Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology (2015).

• List of IllustrationIntroduction: The Ethics of Knowledge-CreationAnne Sigfrid Grønseth and Lisette JosephidesPART I: NEGOTIATING AND TRANSACTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELDChapter 1. Empathic Relations with Tamil Refugees: Challenging Morality and Calling for Ethics of Knowledge-CreationAnne Sigfrid GrønsethChapter 2. The Danger of Knowledge: Exercising Sameness, Bound to DifferentiationGiovanna BacchidduChapter 3. On the Shifting Ethics and Contexts of Knowledge ProductionTamara KohnPART II: THE ETHICS OF INDIRECT MEDIATED ETHNOGRAPHYChapter 4. Troubled Conjunctures: Ethnography, Psychotherapy and Transnational Social FieldsLaura HuttunenChapter 5. The Problems with Gossip: Reflections on the Ethics of Conducting Multi-sited Ethnographic ResearchTamsin BradleyPART III: BIOETHICS, BIO-POLITICS, AND HUMANITY BEYOND THE LOCALChapter 6. A Meditation on Knowledge Production by Personalized Genetic TestingKaja FinklerChapter 7. Biotechnology, Law and Some Problems of KnowingMarit MelhuusChapter 8. Towards an Epistemology of Ethical KnowledgeLisette JosephidesAfterwordMarilyn StrathernIndex

“Anthropology has long been keenly aware of the complicated ethical terrain of fieldwork, knowledge-acquisition and -creation, and the representation, dissemination, and use(s) of that knowledge. The chapters here though are a worthy contribution to that disciplinary self-reflection, which—as a form of knowledge itself—can never be completed or exhausted.” · Anthropology Review Database“Drawing from contexts of migration and biomedicine, this compelling collection offers timely contributions to current debates on the anthropology of knowledge, and tackles the challenging question of knowledge production during fieldwork, primarily in contexts of cultural difference and diversity.” · Astrid Bochow, University of Göttingen