From Mitigation to Negotiation: Ethics and the Geographic Imagination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Abstract

This paper seeks to broaden the debate around research ethics in New Zealand geography beyond the current discussions of 'ethics as mitigation'. We argue that geographers need to focus more attention on the 'ethics of negotiation' associated with each stage of the research process. We suggest that our geographical imaginations should be extended to embrace dialogic relationships with active research subjects through more innovative and participatory methodologies.