CASAS’ member Dimas D Laksmana has published this chapter in the book “Revisiting Reflexivity Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond”.
Abstract: Why is reflexivity needed to transform coloniality in participatory research? In this chapter I critically reflect on my shifting positionalities as an Indonesian field researcher and a doctoral researcher in Germany to argue that in postcolonial Indonesia politics of development is inherent in knowledge co-production. I illustrate emergent and relational forms of participation through my embodied experiences of ‘transdisciplinary moments’. Based on an example of transdisciplinary research I demonstrate how a ‘technicalization’ of societal transformation contributes to the marginalization of the ‘geo- and body-politics’ of knowledge. I contend that reflexive participatory research that is based on the inseparability of bodily experience and the geographical–historical location of knowing could potentially transform coloniality in participatory research practice.
Read the chapter here: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529244892.ch009
Follow us on our social media
CASAS
The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.