Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI
In this perspective piece, we reflect on our experiences as situated responsible innovation (RI) practitioners working in the settler-colonial capitalist contexts of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Beginning with the premise that discomfort is inherent and valuable to practicing RI, we share thr...
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| description | In this perspective piece, we reflect on our experiences as situated responsible innovation (RI) practitioners working in the settler-colonial capitalist contexts of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Beginning with the premise that discomfort is inherent and valuable to practicing RI, we share three situated experiences of noticing and navigating discomfort in our research: embracing the discomfort of one’s compromised agency; developing relationships to hold discomfort; and staying with the trouble of colonialism. Through articulating our experiences, we encourage RI practitioners to reflect on their positionalities and response-abilities. We also highlight how discomfort can open-up or close-down opportunities for practicing RI – depending on how it is handled in practice. We believe such grounded, embodied reflexivity can support research teams to better notice when innovation projects committed to responsibility are perpetuating uneven power relations, and to be more proactive in designing ethical, equitable, and anti-colonial research cultures and technologies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a496b02288f94210a894994a1d4f75aa2025-08-20T04:02:28ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Responsible Innovation2329-94602329-90372024-12-0111110.1080/23299460.2024.2427429Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RIKarly Ann Burch0Susanna Finlay-Smits1Tara Roberson2Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Lincoln, Aotearoa, New ZealandManaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, Aotearoa, New ZealandAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), Brisbane, AustraliaIn this perspective piece, we reflect on our experiences as situated responsible innovation (RI) practitioners working in the settler-colonial capitalist contexts of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Beginning with the premise that discomfort is inherent and valuable to practicing RI, we share three situated experiences of noticing and navigating discomfort in our research: embracing the discomfort of one’s compromised agency; developing relationships to hold discomfort; and staying with the trouble of colonialism. Through articulating our experiences, we encourage RI practitioners to reflect on their positionalities and response-abilities. We also highlight how discomfort can open-up or close-down opportunities for practicing RI – depending on how it is handled in practice. We believe such grounded, embodied reflexivity can support research teams to better notice when innovation projects committed to responsibility are perpetuating uneven power relations, and to be more proactive in designing ethical, equitable, and anti-colonial research cultures and technologies.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2427429Feminist and anti-colonial science and technology studies (STS)response-abilitysettler-colonial capitalismintersectionality and equitycritical reflexivity |
| spellingShingle | Karly Ann Burch Susanna Finlay-Smits Tara Roberson Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI Journal of Responsible Innovation Feminist and anti-colonial science and technology studies (STS) response-ability settler-colonial capitalism intersectionality and equity critical reflexivity |
| title | Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI |
| title_full | Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI |
| title_fullStr | Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI |
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| title_short | Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI |
| title_sort | responsible innovation is not comfortable a call for grounded embodied reflexivity when doing ri |
| topic | Feminist and anti-colonial science and technology studies (STS) response-ability settler-colonial capitalism intersectionality and equity critical reflexivity |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2427429 |
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