Ethical Complexities in Research for Justice: A Companion for Community-Engaged Scholars

Ethical Complexities in Research for Justice: A Companion for Community-Engaged Scholars offers a transformative approach to research ethics that moves beyond checklists and compliance to support ethical judgment in complex, real-world research contexts. Written by three scholars deeply engaged in collaborative and community-based research, the book reframes ethics as an ongoing, relational praxis rather than a procedural requirement, with particular relevance for community-based, participatory, and justice-oriented scholarship that does not fit neatly within standard IRB frameworks. Through chapters organized around key ethical lenses—such as place, relationships, and information—and featuring ethics stories, reflective pauses, and dialogical cases, the book invites students to grapple with ethical tensions across all stages of the research process. Designed as an interactive and pedagogical companion, it equips readers with the skills, dispositions, and reflexive capacities needed to unpack complex ethical dilemmas in their own research and to pursue socially meaningful scholarship with greater ethical attunement and accountability.