Critical Research Methodologies Ethics and Responsibilities (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 181)

Rose Ann Torres

ISBN 10: 9004445552 / ISBN 13: 9789004445550

Published by BRILL, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Research Methodologies Ethics and Responsibilities (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 181)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004445552
• ISBN 13: 9789004445550
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

We live in a society that promotes the universal process of producing knowledge and truth making as fundamental social process. Such promotion of universality seems to subjugate others forms of knowing rendering them invisible, unintelligible, and ineligible and subsequently outside the community of knowing. This has material and symbolic consequences in terms of how research informs policy and subsequent victimization of those who live, and experience subjugation meted by Western truth making universalism. In the words of Foucault, this book is an insurrection of subterranean and clandestine knowledges in ways that provide not just an alternative process of knowledge production but affirms local knowledge as necessary in production of a just society. The book looks at research as a social justice and transformational process that should speak of people’s ways of live without necessarily streamlining them into numbers. The book is a critically reflexive project in terms of returning processes of knowledge production to the local space rather than imagining them as entirely centred in the structure. To imagine this book as reflexive exercise is to break boundaries of knowledges in ways that come to imagine how local performs global in very complicated and complex ways. This book is a resurrection of local knowledges steeped in creative and imaginative reflexive methodologies that come to reorient how we come to know what we know, the values and realities that mark what we know and the how of knowledge production. It centres subjugated voices and knowledges as fundamental in production of knowledge.

Contributors include: Katie Bannon, Elizabeth Charles, Khulood Agha Khan, Dionisio Nyaga, Fritz Pino, and Rose Ann Torres.

About the Author

Rose Ann Torres, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She has published books and many articles on Asian, African, Indigenous, and Women and Gender studies.

Dionisio Nyaga, Ph.D. (2019). University of Toronto, is Lecturer of Social Work at Ryerson University. He has published books, and many articles on African, Anti-Blackness, Gender, and Social Work.