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Researching Architecture and Urban Inequality: Towards Engaged Ethics

Padan, Y; (2020) Researching Architecture and Urban Inequality: Towards Engaged Ethics. Architecture and Culture , 8 (3-4) pp. 484-497. 10.1080/20507828.2020.1792109. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper reflects on approaches to conducting “ethical research” on architecture and urban (in)equality in cities in the global south. It focuses on two themes: the formalization of institutional ethics procedures and protocols for conducting such research, and the need to move away from ethical frameworks that emerge from western structures for knowledge production. The paper will question whether ethical principles are universal or specific, and how they affect the possibility of knowledge co-production and its potential to generate pathways to urban equality. These questions arise from the history of contemporary research ethics procedures, which are rooted in the social norms of western modernity that views researchers and research participants as “autonomous individuals.” The paper will suggest that exploring the relation of the individual to the collective and understanding social existence as relationality, is fundamental in formulating an alternative type of ethics methodology.

Type: Article
Title: Researching Architecture and Urban Inequality: Towards Engaged Ethics
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2020.1792109
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2020.1792109
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: research ethics, knowledge co-production, inequality, relationality, situated ethics, engaged ethics
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10098558
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