Short Abstract

The collective workshop is designed as a reflexive intervention to jointly move from theories to actively practice doing justice using novel methods.

Long Abstract

Does our research practice reproduce or create new social, economic, environmental and intersectional injustices? We as researchers also carry the responsAbility to reflect upon our positionality and methods and confront ourselves with the potential risk of exacerbating divides, conflicts and inequalities e.g. within or between species (non-/human), social groups (gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age, ability, etc.), urban and rural communities, or between the Global South and the Global North. But how can we make sense of the diverse theoretical justice concepts and how can we address them within our research practice more carefully?

While the conceptual debate on justice abounds, there is still a gap in methods and experiences on how to DO justice. Such challenges urge for reflexivity to engage with concepts of justice and its practice. The convenors of this proposed collective reflexive intervention workshop are a group of researchers and artivists working towards collaboratively creating reflection criteria, methods and tools for practicing justice.

Participants will be invited to join the Doing Justice Collective* using a card deck tool, providing action-reflection criteria, and getting to know the justice circle practice as a method to practically overcome hierarchies. This workshop is relevant for the POLLEN community to address how we can integrate diverse origins and multiple futures without reproducing existing injustices by doing research as usual.

Objectives of the workshop are:

- deepen understandings of (in)justice

- encourage a conversation and support knowledge transfer on reflecting on and incorporating justice in research

- try out novel and interactive facilitation techniques for conversations on justice

- experiment with new, reflective ways of doing research that align with the evolving agenda of political ecology.

*since we are a collective, we jointly develop contributions, however not everybody from the collective will (be able to) attend as a convener during the conference