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TY - CHAP
T1 - Democratic Capabilities Research: Exploring contextual challenges and contributions of participatory research towards epistemic justice
AU - Vargas, Carmen Martinez
PY - 2020/11/27
Y1 - 2020/11/27
N2 - Epistemic justice is central for participatory practices; indeed, social justice is not possible without considering epistemic inequalities in knowledge generation. Nevertheless, although this debate is theoretically clear, we still have little literature exploring and reflecting on how this can be achieved. Thus, this chapter draws on findings from a South African case study called "Democratic Capabilities Research". Using extensive and rich qualitative data collected during the space of one year, the analysis of the findings shows that epistemic justice is not an end for higher education practitioners but rather a way of applying research practices in non-ideal settings, where colonial conversion factors are in place. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the contribution of this DCR project, towards epistemic justice, lies in its impact minimising the adverse consequences of colonial conversion factors in the research participants and the use of different multi-epistemic strategies as a way to balance knowledge inequalities instead of achieving epistemic justice as an end.
AB - Epistemic justice is central for participatory practices; indeed, social justice is not possible without considering epistemic inequalities in knowledge generation. Nevertheless, although this debate is theoretically clear, we still have little literature exploring and reflecting on how this can be achieved. Thus, this chapter draws on findings from a South African case study called "Democratic Capabilities Research". Using extensive and rich qualitative data collected during the space of one year, the analysis of the findings shows that epistemic justice is not an end for higher education practitioners but rather a way of applying research practices in non-ideal settings, where colonial conversion factors are in place. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the contribution of this DCR project, towards epistemic justice, lies in its impact minimising the adverse consequences of colonial conversion factors in the research participants and the use of different multi-epistemic strategies as a way to balance knowledge inequalities instead of achieving epistemic justice as an end.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-56197-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-56197-0_6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030561963
SN - 9783030561994
SP - 139
EP - 164
BT - Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice
A2 - Walker, Melanie
A2 - Boni, Alejandra
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -