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Southern Researchers and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Narrating from the Margins

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-041-12352-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 13.10.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. Oktober 2026

This book investigates the challenges faced by early career researchers from the Global South who are working on social science or international development research. Delving deeply into the experiences of a wide range of researchers, the book critically examines and complicates the notions of insider and outsider, inviting the reader to consider who produces knowledge, and how it is produced.

As discussions of epistemic justice and decoloniality within social science and international development research grow in prominence, this book argues that Global South researchers can play a significant role in reversing the gaze and shaping intellectual discussions about how, by whom, and for whose benefit knowledge is created. Combining theoretical discussions with case studies and essays from fieldwork, this book demonstrates the multi-layered and complex positionality which Global South researchers navigate while conducting research. The book considers how Global South researchers bring specific experiences of race, gender, religion, values, and politics to their work, which are often concealed or censored for fear of affecting academic analytical production. This experience of fieldwork can challenge static and linear assumptions of the positionality and ethics of a researcher working in the field.

This innovative book will be an important read for early career researchers working within social science and international development research, as well as for lecturers and practitioners supporting researchers from the Global South in conducting their research and their fieldwork.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781041123521
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-041-12352-1
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 13.10.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Serie: Rethinking Development
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Seiten: 430
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Introduction  1. Centering the South: On Fieldwork, Positionality, and Epistemic Justice  Part I: Researching “Home”  2. Researching Home: Resisting/Re-existing Epistemic Erasures  3. Where are you from, and why do you care? – Duo-ethnographic Reflections on Researching Urban India  4. Bearing Witness at Home: A Personal and Academic Exploration of South Lebanon’s Internally Displaced  5. Deconstructing Home: Positionality and the Politics of Belonging 6. Finding Hope in Research: Reflections of a Scholar-Activist in Indonesia  Part II: Beyond Insider–Outsider Dichotomies  7. Practicing Positionality: Ethics, Power and Co-Creation in Interdisciplinary Research  8. When the “Muzungu” is Not White: Navigating Expectations in (and after) Fieldwork  9. Les jeunes filles: Positionality and Reflectivity as Cross-Cultural Researchers in West Africa  10. Access, Ethics, and Otherness in Laos: Reflections on Fieldwork as a Chinese Researcher  11. Whose Priorities Count? Environmental Research at the Crossroads of Community Needs, State, and Global Agendas  Part III: Identity and the Politics of Knowledge Production  12. Positionality, Power, and Participation in Knowledge Production: An Auto-ethnography of Research on Transactional Sex in Humanitarian Contexts  13. Positional Vertigo: Embodied Affects of Settler Colonialism in Kazakhstan  14. Navigating Positionality and Power Dynamics: Fieldwork Challenges for Iranian Researchers in Development Studies  15. Geographies of Identities: Reflexive Positionality of a Perceived Arab Researcher in Kurdistan  16. From Fieldwork to Academia: Challenges and Privileges of Decolonial Research as an Early Career Researcher  17. Specters of Silence – Ethical Listening and Discursive Practice in Fieldwork: Notes from Colombia  Part IV: Emotional Labor and Embodied Experience  18. Reflections from/on the Flood: Transnational Grief, Disaster Management, and the Unequal Distribution of the Future  19. Feeling the Field: Emotional Labour and the Gendered Terrain of Research  20. Through the eyes of nation: The Refugee Gaze, Turkish Nationalism and Politics of Othering  21. Exile, Evidence, and Resistance: Fieldwork Among Vulnerable Populations in Post-Coup Myanmar  Part V: Epistemic Justice and Reversing the Gaze  22. Where the Body Stands: Negotiating Researcher Positionality across Institutionalized Terrains  23. Exploring the “Northern” Field(s): A Brazilian’s Reflexivity from Down Under  24. Epistemological Refusal: A Palestinian Researcher’s Reflections Amid the Gaza Genocide  25. Engaging Epistemologies ‘Otherwise’: A Decolonial Collaborative Research with Pakistani migrant women in the Netherlands  26. Situating the “South” in Global South: Reflexivity and Epistemic Justice in Southeast Asian Environmental Development