Decolonising research methodologies: is there a role for cognitive justice?
While the demand to decolonise research is increasingly being articulated across diverse disciplines, the substantive proportion of the argument tends to coalesce around structural concerns around North-South knowledge equity and ethical and normative demands on current research practices. But are ethical, inclusive, and power-sensitive approaches sufficient to 'decolonise' research?
This lecture engages with the conceptualisation of cognitive justice, to explore how current methods of 'knowing' in social science research engages with plural knowledges. By engaging with epistemically disobedient methodological experiments, Dr. Acharya explores possibilities for reimagining research methodologies which emerge out of compassion, solidarity and respect for dissenting imaginations.
Amitangshu Acharya | Senior Lecturer in Water and Society | IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Discussant: Josias Tembo (post-doctoral researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp)