ABSTRACT
This chapter raises some core ethical issues that lie at the heart of community-based participatory research (PR). It foregrounds the tensions between the collective and the individual, the ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ viewpoints, inter-community and intra-community conflict and issues of representation in democratic contexts. The cases that elucidate these dynamics in Part 2 of the chapter traverse a wide range of global regions, cultural contexts and diversities and yet dwell on ethical concerns that have commonalities and are shared the world over. It is through this lens of shared experience that I have tried to address some of the core ethical concerns that the authors of the cases have highlighted. Although I do not belong to any of the regions or cultural contexts depicted by the four cases, my experiences of participatory action research with marginalised communities through Research Initiatives, Bangladesh (RIB), my own experiences in feminist research practices as well as university education are implicated in the comments I have to offer.
