Critique ofMorality in Research. Considerations forPostformalistEthics

This article problematizes what is commonly known as "research ethics" and proposes to enunciate it critically as research morality. This morality -even being a significant advance to protect those who participate in research- has not been sufficient to prevent that research practices follow extractivist and colonialist logics. It is necessary to ori-ent, complement, and enhance research morality based on a postformalist ethics, whose articulating axis is the configuration of research interactions. This essay develops this proposal in three moments: The first one defines what can be critically understood as research morality; the second addresses two possible conditions for apostformalist ethics (ethics as critic and the ontological turn); as an in-conclusion, the third moment presents ways to define a postformalist ethics of research and think the ethical research interactions.