Category Ethics

Posts raising ethical questions in research methods, fieldwork, or development practice. Use alongside a primary category.

Development Studies, Environment, Ethics, Global Policy, Insights

The Paradox of Participatory Empowerment: Analysing Horizontal Power Dynamics in Rural Uttar Pradesh

Brick pathway through trees toward open farmland

This blog features a guest post by Fionn Casey Ó Siochrú drawing on postgraduate field research carried out in rural Uttar Pradesh in 2025. Participation & Empowerment: Participatory development is widely promoted as an approach that actively engages local people,…

Fionn Casey
December 10, 2025

Development Studies, Environment, Ethics, Global Policy, Insights

A feminist relational perspective on poverty and prosperity

Understanding the relationship between poverty and prosperity as looped rather than linear prompts reflection and reimagination of the meaning of prosperity and post-growth futures.

Susan Murphy
April 24, 2024