Towards epistemically-just research:: a methodologies framework

Shona McIntosh; Rachel Wilder

doi:10.1177/15327086221138981

Towards epistemically-just research: a methodologies framework

Shona McIntosh, Rachel Wilder

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Abstract

This paper interrogates the relationship between social science research and the ways of doing, knowing and being privileged in the western university. It traces a line from the colonial origins of dominant knowledge and knowledge-making practices, through the creation of a rational scientist subject, to make visible the reproduction of epistemic inequality in modernity/coloniality. The link between epistemic injustice (Fricker, 2007) and neoliberal knowledge-production practices is made clear through a particular focus on the role research methods plays in this process and a framework of methodologies for epistemically-just research is proposed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	235-245
Journal	Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
Volume	23
Issue number	3
Early online date	22 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221138981
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2023

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Keywords

epistemic justice
Social Sciences
Research methodologies
de/coloniality
post-qualitative inquiry
western knowledge practices

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