The power in re-telling research

A Cambodian community-based approach generating knowledge by subjects of study

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ID4891797
AuthorsRaymond Hyma (0000-0002-7792-0636, Global Peace and Security Centre, corresponding author), Briony Jones (0000-0003-4003-3387, University of Warwick), Suyheang Kry (0009-0007-7734-5364, Women Peace Makers), Le Sen (0000-0002-2073-0647, Uppsala University), Sreyneang Loek (Mondulkiri Law), Nika Tath (Seeing Hands), Thida Kuy (LoveIsDiversity)
Year2025
Volume35
Issue8
Pages1-13
Publication date2025-02-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614524.2025.2463913
OpenAlexW4407699430
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

Whose knowledge counts? Communities in developing countries have long been the subjects of research. Knowledge production, however, takes place at multitudinous levels, and inquiry by those on the inside of study can offer a paramount perspective in understanding phenomena directly related to, or about, them. This article presents research and insights of four Cambodian community members who became researchers and led studies using the Cambodian home-grown methodology Facilitative Listening Design. They conducted research on what they describe as their own “communities”: blind women, Indigenous women, ethnic minority women, and LGBTIQ+ individuals. In a dialogic process with both “insider” community and “outsider” academic researchers, they contribute their knowledge to this article as co-authors, not subjects, and weave their insights into a larger collective inquiry on contemporary hierarchies and politics of a global “knowledge game”. Through their contributions, which shift power by re-telling research in their own words, knowledge is shown to be contingent, subjective, and shaped by relationships of power – to which their work illustrates that not only does their knowledge count – but it is epistemologically critical

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · South asia · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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