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Refusing research during a pandemic

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ID12716840
AuthorsZuleika Bibi Sheik (0000-0002-8761-6937, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume20
Issue2
Pages225-237
Publication date2023-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2022.2099638
OpenAlexW4319038720
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

What does it mean to refuse research during a pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reckon with old wounds and underlying conditions, particularly the ways in which these extreme inequalities are circumvented in research. In addressing pandemic failures the article addresses the ways in which research is complicit and how research has been re-invented under the conditions of the pandemic yet is still under the logics of extractivism and in service of the neoliberal university. Using refusal and abolition as generative theoretical groundings, the article seeks radical alternatives to reclaiming research as practice. Through the retraditioning of knowledges through ancestry, spirituality and positionality we can start to reclaim research as practice. Thus, in our refusal to go back to ‘normal’, practicing research becomes the first step in organizing in anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-racist ways

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Colonialism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Environmental ethics · Inequality · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Service (business · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Spirituality · Law · Medicine · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Marketing · Virology

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