In this paper, I investigate how the development of ethics and methods in beyond human and posthuman research have largely been ignored within institutional ethical frameworks. Specifically, I argue that the ethical review process for research needs critical consideration in light of emerging multispecies methodologies. The inclusion and consideration of animals in geography should go further than “bringing animals in” to the discipline; instead they must seek to rethink geographical theory as with and for non-humans. The ethics, politics, and practices of animals’ inclusion in research have been differentially attended to across geographical scholarship. To do this, I investigate how institutional ethical review operates as a disciplining and shaping tool in the neoliberal university. In doing so, I contend that ethical review processes shape the narratives and structures of what kinds of research are possible for not only animal geographers, but across the discipline. I then explore how multispecies research specifically is affected by and can affect institutional ethical review, revealing how these processes fall short against the heightened backdrop of species difference. Where posthumanist ethics is in tension with institutional ethical frameworks, I argue that ethical approval does not necessarily indicate that researchers have successfully grappled with complex moral dilemmas. Particularly, the acquiring of ethical approval prioritises outmoded forms of knowledge that prioritise homogenised ethical and methodological practice over ethical innovation and questioning. Finally, I offer three propositions drawing on posthumanist ethics and informed by innovative and exploratory multispecies research: the inclusion of animals as participants in research; the reimagination of multispecies ethical and methodological practice; and the reform of institutional ethical review processes. By exploring how radical ethics might be mobilised in multispecies research, I argue that we can further geographical theory and practice to reconfigure who matters as a geographical and ethical subject.

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超越人类伦理：机构伦理审查中的动物问题

在本文中，我调查了超越人类和后人类研究的伦理和方法的发展如何在制度伦理框架内被很大程度上忽视。具体来说，我认为研究的伦理审查过程需要根据新兴的多物种方法进行批判性考虑。地理中对动物的包容和考虑应该比“将动物带入”学科更进一步；相反，他们必须寻求重新思考与非人类相关的地理理论。将动物纳入研究的伦理、政治和实践在地理学术领域受到了不同程度的关注。为此，我研究了机构伦理审查如何作为新自由主义大学的纪律和塑造工具运作。在这样做，我认为，伦理审查过程塑造了不仅对动物地理学家而且对整个学科来说可能的研究类型的叙述和结构。然后，我探讨了多物种研究如何具体地受到以及如何影响机构伦理审查，揭示这些过程在物种差异加剧的背景下是如何不足的。在后人类主义伦理与制度伦理框架发生冲突的情况下，我认为伦理认可并不一定表明研究人员已经成功地解决了复杂的道德困境。特别是，获得道德认可优先考虑过时的知识形式，这些知识优先于同质化的道德和方法实践，而不是道德创新和质疑。最后，我根据后人类主义伦理学提出三个命题，并以创新和探索性的多物种研究为依据：将动物纳入研究参与者；重新构想多物种伦理和方法实践；以及机构伦理审查程序的改革。通过探索如何在多物种研究中动员激进的伦理学，我认为我们可以推进地理学理论和实践，以重新配置作为地理和伦理学科的重要对象。