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rooted in feminist and relational ethics
challenging traditional ‘masculine’ methods without comprising the rigor
context-specific and non-universal
care is not neutral, intersectional identities and inequalities
focus on situated knowledge, interdependence and vulnerability
witnessing injustice as a responsibility, engaging from a position of power
disowning the power and allowing for genuine relational care
who carries the burden
not soft or sentimental, but responsive and reflexive
care is embedded in histories of harm
dominant power forces don’t disappear when we enter the field
grounded in context, care in one situation may not be care in another
accountable to people and systems you work within - a responsibility to the communities
what are we failing to question
move towards inconvenience
care begins by recognising how power and ethics questions are embedded in systems and infrastructures
be willing to change if it starts to cause harm
responsibility and transformation
is the research effective if nothing changes?
are participants’ voices mediated, abstracted or aestheticized
are they framing the research too, what is the long-term implication
care as recognition, reciprocity and responsibility
if you hold information on someone’s life you’re now in continuous relationship with them, they’re a part of you moving forward and them you
reflect on how we are trained to claim knowledge
the divide between the one who knows and about whom is known
who gets to set the terms of what is reliable, vigorous, academic data
what does research look like through more relational and plural approaches
even with no direct participants you are still accountable to the people you’re thinking about/talking about/excluding
knowledge lineage
Resources
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research has been (and is) used as a colonial act
anthropological work to categorise and control indigenous people
archives and maps used to survey and classify
eugenics and ‘racial science’ shaping agenda for education and research
science for war , science for politics what is a ‘legitimate’ research method
citations / databases / publishing norms
historically complicit institutions still structurally similar, hierarchies
alternative knowledge systems still erased or devalued
using instead Feminist, Indigenous and participatory methods
alternative approaches to centre healing, land, relationship, ceremony
Paulo Freire (1970) - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Gloria Anzaldua (1987) - Borderlands/La Frontera
Donna Haraway (1988) - Situated Knowledges - rejecting the objectivity and embracing accountable shared/contested/pluriversal knowledge in technoscience
bell hooks (1991) - Theory as Liberatory Practice - theory as accessible relational practise for transformation
Sylvia Wynter (1995) - 1492: A New World View - critiques colonial humanism
Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) – Decolonizing Methodologies - centering Indigenous research ethics / relationality / sovereignty
Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang (2012) – Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor - material, institutional, and epistemic repatriation
Sara Ahmed (2012) – On Being Included - citation, complaint, and critique as resistance
Audra Simpson (2014) – Mohawk Interruptus - refusal as a method
Saidiya Hartman (2019) – Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments - constructing archives usually erased
Christina Sharpe (2016) – In the Wake - Wake work as method; racial violence
Kim TallBear (2013)– Native American DNA - critique of settler research methods and data extraction
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2019) – Generous Thinking - scholarship based on care
Ruha Benjamin (2019) - Race After Technology
Rhodes Must Fall (Oxford, 2015-)
Why Is My Curriculum White? (UCL, 2014-), student and staff resistance to Eurocentrism
Feminist PubPub (2020–) Open-source, feminist infrastructure for publishing; collaborative, relational, and anti-
extractive knowledge-making