"We present a novel analytical framework to evaluate the ethical, political, and justice implications of research on perceptions of emerging technologies. Using the literature on perspectives on solar geoengineering (SG) as an object of study, we develop a framework that interrogates the research process itself. Our framework interrogates whose perceptions are being studied, by whom, using what methods, following which lines of inquiry, and crucially, for what purposes. We do this through the case of SG, a controversial emerging climate intervention technology with potential global social and environmental impacts."