Political Reflexivity and the Ethics of Research in the Social Sciences, by Mai Abu Moghli
Du 17.01.2024 - 13:30 au 17.01.2024 - 15:00
Dans le cadre du Séminaire : La Palestine au prisme des sciences sociales:
Political Reflexivity and the Ethics of Research in the Social Sciences, by Mai Abu Moghli, senior researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS)
Violent contexts are not “normal” research settings; they involve abuses, power disparities, and collective histories of violence that researchers should be alert to. Researchers unreflexive about these risk causing harm in the form of objectifying people and context, normalizing violence, or silencing voices. Political reflexivity can equip researchers to better identify, understand and mitigate these harms, and where possible, challenge structures that do the marginalizing. In this talk, I articulate political reflexivity through asking researchers to critically examine their positionality and privilege in relation to the geopolitics of the research setting, epistemic privilege of marginalized participants, and political implications of their work. Practicing political reflexivity can help researchers situate their work along a “decoloniality continuum,” which includes complicity with the maintenance of violence, a hybridity approach that aims to understand and challenge the (colonial) underpinnings of violence by centering marginalized knowledge, and reparation or liberation, meaning redress and radical equality for marginalized peoples, ideas and histories. I conclude with a call for researchers to identify methods and paths to strengthen our understanding of political reflexivity, and to support efforts to decolonize knowledge.
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