Heretics: Erection and Ethics

Abstract What are the ethical possibilities the universality has to offer to a humanity founded and sustained by inequality? This is what the paper want to stress, observing the discourse’s affective trigger in two situations with ethical clash in the linguistic ethnography. It analyzes an interaction between a global north teacher and a South American doctoral student, both negotiating ethical boundaries to argue for a research ethics that is radically particular and contextual. To this end, this study also analyzes the mockery of participants in WhatsApp groups for intimate and spectacular performances regarding their request for consent. Such mockery evidences that, unlike the subjection of our collaborators to the bureaucratic methods of ours, it may be more ethical for the researcher to embrace the ethical model that meets the expectations of the community in which he operates, though. Prior to the analysis, there is a bibliographical review about ethics and colonialism that theoretically supports the discussion undertaken in this proposition.

摘要：以不平等为根基并得以维系的人类社会，普遍性所能提供的伦理可能性究竟为何？本文旨在强调这一核心问题，通过在语言民族志（linguistic ethnography）的研究中，观察两类存在伦理冲突场景下的话语情感触发点。本文分析了一位全球北方教师与一名南美博士生之间的互动场景：双方均在协商伦理边界，以论证一种彻底特殊且具情境性的研究伦理。为此，本研究还分析了参与者在WhatsApp群组中，针对其知情同意（consent）请求所展开的私密且富有戏剧性的展演行为所遭受的嘲讽。此类嘲讽表明：相较于将研究合作者纳入我们自身的科层式研究流程之中，研究者或许更应接纳契合其所处社群期待的伦理模式，如此方能更具伦理正当性。在正式开展分析前，本文先完成了关于伦理学与殖民主义的文献综述，为本研究的核心理论探讨提供了支撑。