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Creative and Participatory Methods for Researching Racism, Migration and Indigeneity
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Creative and participatory methods for researching racism, migration and indigeneity
This panel invites contributions to reflect on how creative and participatory research methods speak to the need for research on racism, migration, nationalism and indigeneity to involve research participants actively in the process of research. How do these methods allow us to make research relevant to participants’ social and political lived realities? What particular ethical dilemmas and issues are raised by participatory and creative methods and how do these speak to wider theoretical concerns of critical race theory, decolonial and indigenous approaches to research.
Research on racism, migration, nationalism and indigeneity faces particular challenges in a social climate where participation is increasingly defined as a privilege for those considered to be full or ideal citizens. What is the role of participatory and creative methods in challenging such exclusionary articulations of who can and who cannot participate legitimately in public debate and deliberation? This panel invites submissions including, but not limited to the following questions:
- How do researchers address risks of appropriation of critical knowledges?
- What are the challenges for co-producing knowledge across academic and other sectors such as arts, policy, activism?
- What are opportunities and pitfalls of creative, participatory and collaborative methods for challenging colonial and racialized knowledges?
- Ethical dilemmas
- Theoretical contributions exploring the value, challenges or tensions of participatory, collaborative or creative approaches to research
- Reflexive accounts of specific research projects