Whose Knowledge Matters? | SOAS Festival of Ideas
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 09/11/2020

Knowledge is often evaluated by who produces it rather than its utility. Given the hierarchies that such judgements are filtered through, based on gender, nationality, ethnicity, seniority, age and so on, it is usually the knowledge of marginalised groups that becomes undervalued, twisted and appropriated, often with traumatic consequences. We will address a range of processes that undervalue the expertise of specific groups, and how this relates to conflict, violence and peace, through presentations, films and discussion with three members of SOAS's Global Research Network on Parliaments and People focusing on different exclusions.

Jas Kaur (SOAS University of London), Moderator
Emma Crewe (SOAS University of London), Deepening democracy in international research coalitions
Myat Thet Thitsar (Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation, Yangon), Challenging processes of the exclusion of knowledge in Myanmar
Sewit Haileselassie Tadesse (Addis Ababa), Embracing Dissent: youth, political participation and peace-building in Ethiopia

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