"How to De-Racialize Research Works?" - A Lecture by Dr. Sayan Dey at North-Eastern Hill University
Channel: Roots and Routes: A Living Archive
Date: 2022-09-05

Usually, any form of research work is underlined with multiple forms of binaries, hierarchies, and power dynamics. Some of the binaries, hierarchies and power dynamics are already determined prior to initiate a research project and some of these aspects are manufactured in the process of conducting the research. These challenges are underlined by caste, class, gender, cultural, racial, geographical, and topographical biases that are collectively generated and systematized by societies. This lecture will focus on the aspect of racism and how it impacts the methodologies, arguments, and outputs of research work in humanities and social sciences. In order to justify the arguments, anonymous examples of research dissertations will be taken from different higher education institutions across India and the world. The lecture will also reflect on how Critical Race Studies (CRT) can function as a methodological practice for dismantling these hierarchies.