Overview
- Highlights the importance of epistemic in/justice as a foundation to a decolonial approach to knowledge
- Draws on case studies from around the globe to argue for an epistemic ecology of knowledge
- Illustrates how epistemic capabilities can be marginalised by the academy as well as their potential
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This book explores the potential of participatory research and the capability approach to transform understandings of higher education. The editors and contributors illuminate the importance of epistemic in/justice as a foundation to a reflexive, inclusive and decolonial approach to knowledge, as well as its importance to democratic life and participation in higher education. Drawing together eight global case studies, the authors argue for an ecology of knowledge that expands epistemic capabilities in higher education through teaching, research and policy making. Moreover, the chapters illustrate how these epistemic capabilities can be marginalised by both institutions and structural and historical factors; as well as the potential for possibilities when spaces are opened for genuine participation and designed for a plurality of voices. This book will appeal to scholars of social justice and participatory research as well as ongoing debates around decolonising the academy.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Reviews
“This wide-ranging edited volume by Melanie Walker and Alejandra Boni beautifully captures the potential for university-based participatory action research (PAR) to influence epistemic spaces in the wider community. Moreover, and perhaps most interestingly, it does so by invoking the insights of the capability approach. … The editors deserve to be congratulated for this collection of essays that lend both depth and breadth to the book. … The 10 chapters in this excellent volume help us understand why.” (Stacy J. Kosko, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 23 (1), 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Melanie Walker is Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and holds the South African Research Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. Her research interests focus on social justice and human development in higher education in the global South.
Alejandra Boni is Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain and Deputy Director of Ingenio (CSIC-UPV). Her research interest focus on human development, higher education, global citizenship and transformative innovation.
Alejandra Boni is Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain and Deputy Director of Ingenio (CSIC-UPV). Her research interest focus on human development, higher education, global citizenship and transformative innovation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice
Book Subtitle: A Transformative Agenda for Higher Education
Editors: Melanie Walker, Alejandra Boni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56197-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56196-3Published: 28 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56199-4Published: 28 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56197-0Published: 27 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 271
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Research Methods in Education, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education