Transactional Ethics and "Damage-Centred" Research: Of Banality and Oblivion

Autor/in	Maistry, Suriamurthee Moonsamy
Titel	Transactional Ethics and "Damage-Centred" Research: Of Banality and Oblivion
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 38 (2020) 1, S.88-99 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Aging (Individuals); Age Differences; Cognitive Ability; Females; Journal Articles; Social Science Research; Philosophy; Social Justice; Social Change; Postcolonialism; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Racial Bias; Ethnic Groups; Race; Research Problems; Cultural Awareness; Perspective Taking; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Aging; Altern; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Denkfähigkeit; Weibliches Geschlecht; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Philosophie; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Sozialer Wandel; Post colonialism; Postkolonialismus; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Ethnie; Rasse; Abstammung; Forschungskritik; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Zukunftsperspektive; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The recent article by Nieuwoudt, Dickie, Coetsee, Engelbrecht and Terblanche (2019) entitled "Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Colored South African women" published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, attracted considerable negative attention, leading to its official withdrawal from circulation. While it may be argued that this unfortunate piece of "scholarship" had "slipped through the cracks", there is certainly a need for a more nuanced analysis of what constitutes ethical social research practice. In this article, the issue of intentionality and (un)witting Othering is contemplated by invoking Tuck's notion of "damage-centred" research, an approach that continues to frame contemporary investigations in the name of social justice. It is argued that there is a need to reconsider the practice of transactional ethics. Arendt's concept of the banality (of evil) has resonance, as it speaks to the notion of "blissful oblivion of complicity", even in the context of a widespread contemporary discourse of social transformation and decolonisation in South African higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01