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TY - JOUR
T1 - Participatory Action Research
T2 - Towards (non-ideal) epistemic justice in a university in South Africa
AU - Walker, Melanie
AU - Vargas, Carmen Martinez
AU - Mkwananzi, Faith
PY - 2020/4/30
Y1 - 2020/4/30
N2 - The paper explores the possibilities for promoting epistemic justice in a South African university setting through a participatory action-based photovoice research project in which university researchers worked alongside undergraduate students with no prior experience of doing research. The student voices are employed to understand how learning as capability development and agency expansion can advance epistemic justice in a university setting of hierarchical relationships that make participatory action research challenging. The paper considers how, in this project, spaces of epistemic democracy intersected with the expansion of multidimensional functionings, resulting in more epistemic justice for the student-researchers. The paper considers the possibilities for change through a participatory project toward promoting epistemic justice at the individual level. It also explores some criticisms of the limits of such individual development in the face of structural challenges.
AB - The paper explores the possibilities for promoting epistemic justice in a South African university setting through a participatory action-based photovoice research project in which university researchers worked alongside undergraduate students with no prior experience of doing research. The student voices are employed to understand how learning as capability development and agency expansion can advance epistemic justice in a university setting of hierarchical relationships that make participatory action research challenging. The paper considers how, in this project, spaces of epistemic democracy intersected with the expansion of multidimensional functionings, resulting in more epistemic justice for the student-researchers. The paper considers the possibilities for change through a participatory project toward promoting epistemic justice at the individual level. It also explores some criticisms of the limits of such individual development in the face of structural challenges.
U2 - 10.1080/17449626.2019.1661269
DO - 10.1080/17449626.2019.1661269
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 77
EP - 94
JO - Journal of Global Ethics
JF - Journal of Global Ethics
SN - 1744-9626
IS - 1
ER -