Research Ethics for Human Geography

Helen F. Wilson is a social and cultural geographer and an Associate Professor in Human Geography at Durham University. Her research focuses on the politics of lived difference. She has published widely on the geographies of encounter, urban life and living, and how embodied difference is negotiated, contested, and supported in times of crisis and/or contestation. She is the co-editor of Encountering the City (Routledge, 2016). Jonathan Darling is an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of forced migration and considers how cities engage with questions of asylum and refuge. He has published widely on the politics of urban sanctuary, on refugee activism, and on the ethics of working with vulnerable groups. He is co-editor of Encountering the City (2014, Routledge), and Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles (Manchester University Press).

Chapter 1: Introducing Ethics - Helen F. Wilson and Jonathan Darling
Chapter 2: Geography and Ethics - Jonathan Darling and Helen F. Wilson
Part 1: Core Ethical Issues
Chapter 3: Positionality - Romola Sanyal
Chapter 4: Consent - Chris Philo and Eric Laurier
Chapter 5: Anonymity - Helen F. Wilson
Chapter 6: Sensitive topics - Peter Hopkins
Chapter 7: Power and Empowerment - Thomas Swerts
Chapter 8: Emotions - Elspeth Probyn
Chapter 9: Expectations - Jonathan Darling
Chapter 10: Statistics and Data - Niall Cunningham
Chapter 11: Data Management - Helen F. Wilson
Chapter 12: Avoiding the Weaponization of Research - Sara Koopman
Part 2: Approaches
Chapter 13: Radical Geographies - Raksha Pande
Chapter 14: Activist Geographies - Anthony Ince and Richard White
Chapter 15: Participatory Research - Michele Lobo, David Kelly and Helen F. Wilson
Chapter 16: Indigenous Methods - Renee Pualani Louis and Zoltán Grossman
Part 3: Subjects
Chapter 17: Vulnerable Subjects - Jonathan Darling
Chapter 18: Animals - Kathryn Gillespie
Chapter 19: Children and Young People - John Horton, Michelle Pyer, and Faith Tucker
Chapter 20: Historical Geographies and Archived Subjects - Derek Alderman and Joshua Inwood
Chapter 21: Powerful and Elite Subjects - Merje Kuus
Chapter 22: The Environment - Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 23: Public Spaces - Veronica Crossa
Part 4: Spaces
Chapter 24: Private and Domestic Spaces - Geraldine Pratt
Chapter 25: Spaces of Development - Jonathan Rigg
Chapter 26: Voluntary Spaces - Monica Fariás and Helen F. Wilson
Chapter 27: Virtual Spaces and Social Media - Sam Kinsley
Chapter 28: Spaces of Disaster - Katie Oven, Hanna Ruszczyk, and Jonathan Rigg
Part 5: Committment
Chapter 29: Writing Research - Pat Noxolo