Open seminar
Maynooth, Tuesday November 19th
with Dr Alberto Arribas Lozano
Drawing on ethnographic
research undertaken with social movement networks in Spain, South Africa, and
Peru, this seminar will explore the possibilities, tensions and limits of
research collaboration.
Social movements often operate
as reflexive communities that conduct research, broadly conceived, as a key
dimension of their political praxis. As scholars, what does it imply to do
research with non-academic actors/subjects who are expert knowledge producers
themselves?
Can our projects be designed/transformed
into a collaborative encounter, a dialogue of reflexivities for the
co-production of knowledge? Can research be articulated around the questions posed by movement organizations instead of (solely) around disciplinary interests?
What ethical, epistemic
and methodological challenges and innovations arise in this engagement?
Collaborative
frameworks, the shift from studying social movements to working and
thinking together with activists
as co-researchers, centrally address the politics of knowledge production,
raising critical questions about what the purpose of research is, who is it
relevant for, how it is conducted, what knowledges we take seriously – whose
knowledge counts – and who we write for and how.
Dr Alberto Arribas
Lozano is working in Peru with PRATEC, a grassroots organization
devoted to Andean-Amazonian cultural affirmation and decolonial community-based
research. He has previously done collaborative
research with social rights activists in Spain, and worked on the interface
between research and social justice in South Africa.
Auxilia building seminar room, Maynooth University (north campus)
Tuesday November 19th, 6 – 7.30 pm
Admission free, all welcome.
Dr Alberto
Arribas Lozano
Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Irish Research Council CAROLINE Postdoctoral Fellow
Department
of Sociology, Maynooth University
