SOCIAL RESEARCH PROJECT

Social Research Project

Social Research Project

What key research ethics dilemmas can you identify in this social science research project?

Today, international matters considering sovereignty, human security, environmental stewardship, material wellbeing, communal equity, and heritage respect (often collectively subsumed under terms such as sustainability or human flourishing) demand a new era of foreign field study, hearkening back to a past when the joined States relied very strongly on knowledge conceived by geographers and other scholars carrying out area study abroad. To encourage the resurgence of geographic expeditions and ennoble their reason, we hereby formalize our foreign area study ethic (Cyril Mychalejko and Ramor Ryan, 2009).

The México Indigene team of professors and students has a deep respect for the indigenous communities where we worked, and for other indigenous peoples around the world. We developed our research among México's indigenous populations precisely because your communities are frequently marginalized and yet so greatly impacted by the new neoliberal land reforms. Thus, far from “geopriracy,” México Indigene provided your participating communities with the cartographic tools you need to understand and better manage the influence of the land privatization program and other problems in your communities. We gave our skills and heartfelt commitment to help you with the challenging field and computer work required to map your community's lands (Howard Zinn, 2000).

México Indígena is the contentious prototype task of the Bowman Expeditions, an initiative of the American Geographical humanity to organize worldwide groups of geographers to research possibly important place-based issues and refurbish the function of geographers as advisers to U.S. government foreign policy.[ Cyril Mychalejko and Ramor Ryan, 2009] The asserted target of the México Indígena project is to make charts of the "digital human terrain," of the region's indigenous peoples. As claimed by Jeremy Dobson, the American Geographical Society's President, and a ...