The Practice of Making Ethics
Methodological Entanglements and Speculative Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2387288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tara Page (0009-0008-3792-8466, Goldsmiths University of London) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778004251355911 |
| OpenAlex | W4412868510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
Ethics in research is often treated as a procedural hurdle; a fixed, front-loaded checkpoint of compliance. I propose an alternative: an ethics that is intra-active, materially situated, and made with the unfolding of the research itself, making ethics . Drawing on feminist new materialist praxis, I explore how ethics emerges within embodied, co-creative, and affective research encounters, particularly in creative, practice-based, and post-qualitative methodologies. I examine not only the methodological implications of this remaking but also the institutional structures that constrain it. I call for iterative materially embedded ethics practices and a remaking of research governance that privileges responsiveness over risk-averse abstraction. With this paper, I offer making ethics , not a retrospective add-on or predictive mechanism but a generative, materially attuned, and institutionally consequential practice, one that demands structural transformation. What might research become if ethics were made with-in its world
Autoethnography · Corporate governance · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Management · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
R-Words
Successful Organizational Change
New Materialisms
Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry
On Being Included
The Minor Gesture
Bodies of Water
Human presence
A critique of new materialism
Researching without representation? Language and materiality in post-qualitative methodology
On the Need for Methods Beyond Proceduralism
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
The Wonder of Data
The Appearance of Data
Upholding "Colonial Unknowing" Through the IRB
Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence
Plugging One Text Into Another
"Complicating Voice in a Refusal to "Let Participants Speak for Themselves
Ethics, Reflexivity, and "Ethically Important Moments" in Research
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |