Paper short abstract:

This presentation reflects on the dilemmas of co-producing knowledge with practitioner around human rights interventions in poor urban neighbourhoods

Paper long abstract:

In this presentation, I will reflect on the dilemmas of co-producing knowledge with practitioner around human rights interventions in poor urban neighbourhoods in Liberia and South Africa (along with Denmark and the Philippines). Conceptually, the paper explores what we might call epistemic communities and how they define what kind of knowledge count as knowledge and what data is convincing. Centrally in this regard is that knowledge must be valid, reliable and useful even if those three criteria often are contradictory.