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P29


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The Intersection of Participatory Methodologies and Knowledge Production 
Convenors:
Zainab Mai-Bornu (University of Leicester)
Gordon Crawford (Coventry University)
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Formats:
Papers Synchronous
Stream:
Power, learning and emotions in achieving the SDGs
Sessions:
Thursday 18 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

While remaining critical, this panel explores whether participatory approaches can lead to qualitative changes in power relations both in the research process and in generating endogenous knowledge that highlights marginalised voices and challenges structures of injustice.

Long Abstract:

In its constant negotiation between power and privilege, knowledge production continues to be structured in hierarchies and embedded in power relations in the research process itself, both between researchers in the global south and north, and between researchers and local people/research participants. Many scholars are currently engaging with these power asymmetries and seeking ways to counter them, not least in discussions about 'decolonizing knowledge production'. This panel considers to what extent participatory methodologies and approaches, such as participatory video, popular theatre and participatory learning and action, can be one of the solutions? We will critically examine the nature of knowledge production and whether and how participatory methodologies can be used to generate endogenous knowledge rooted in local histories experiences and perspectives, cultures and contexts. We will explore the extent to which participatory methods open up new insights and enable processes of co-production of knowledge. We will interrogate leadership and development through stories and experiences as forms of knowledge production. We will challenge the adequacy of much mainstream knowledge, at times based on (neo-)colonial, gendered and racialised perspectives, as well as critiquing participatory approaches and the possible (re)production of power relations. We will explore the politics of knowledge production and whether participatory approaches can lead to the mobilisation of marginalised people and produce knowledge that challenges structures of injustice. We will consider how to bring together researchers, practitioners, research participants and activists, and under what conditions this can translate into mutually beneficial partnerships and contribute towards decolonizing development knowledge.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 18 June, 2020, -