Refusal – opening otherwise forms of research

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ID9284342
AuthorsLena Gro (0000-0002-3419-315X, Sámi University of Applied Sciences, corresponding author), Lena Gross, Sepandarmaz Mashreghi (0000-0003-2710-3483, Malmö University), Emma Söderman (0000-0002-1038-1981, Linnaeus University)
Year2023
Publication date2023-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFennia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-0010 • E-ISSN: 1798-5617
PublisherGeographical Society of Finland (PUBLISHER • FI)
DOI10.11143/fennia.120482
OpenAlexW4386728875
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited27

An increasing interest towards researching other forms of knowledges is taking place, expanding the boundaries of knowledge to include forms that have been historically marginalised, negated, and neglected by the Western academy. Parallel to this, we have identified a rising critique of how voices marginalized by colonial modes of academic knowledge production are included, through a single-sided focus on pain and suffering (Tuck & Yang 2014). Yet there are less discussions around the process of research itself and what it entails. Against this backdrop, this paper aims to challenge the concept of ‘discovery’ and the unproblematic and inherent right of knowing granted to the Western academy, to argue for a kind of research that refuses. Interrogating instances of refusal in different contexts of Indigenous sovereignty and migration studies, this collective work creates a dialogue across different disciplines and reveals that refusal turns the gaze at colonial modalities of knowing. The empirical analysis of our work also demonstrates that refusal is a generative process that redirects the attention to ideas otherwise unacknowledged, thus making space for relationality, reciprocity, solidarity, community, and care

Colonialism · Epistemology · Gaze · Generative grammar · Indigenous · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Sovereignty · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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