David Ludwig - How to Decolonize your Research Methods? Philosophy of/as Action Research (28/1/2021)
Channel: Dominic Berry
Date: 2021-01-29

This seminar was given as part of the What is Epistemic Decolonization? 2021 seminar series. For more about the series, and to register for future seminars, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-epistemic-decolonization-online-seminar-series-tickets-127446105733

To learn more about Dr Ludwig's research please visit: 
http://david-ludwig.com/

The chair, and co-organiser, was Dr Azita Chellappoo:
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/wtwg/chellappoo

Abstract: How to Decolonize your Research Methods? Philosophy of/as Action Research

What would it mean to decolonize philosophy of science? This talk shifts the focus from basic research to action research as a methodology for putting scientific practice in the service of social change and social justice. Tracing the history of action research in the domain of international development, it outlines methodological shifts from a paternalistic humanitarianism of developing the "Third World" to critical engagement with the co-production of science and society. In a second step, the talk applies these methodological lessons to philosophy as science. “Philosophy of action research” therefore leads to “philosophy as action research” as one mode of articulating decolonial ambitions in philosophical practice.

Dr Ludwig provides the following short bibliography:

Chilisa, Bagele. Indigenous research methodologies. Sage Publications, 2019.

Ludwig, David, and Charbel N. El-Hani. "Philosophy of ethnobiology: understanding knowledge integration and its limitations." Journal of Ethnobiology 40, no. 1 (2020): 3-20.

Nadasdy, Paul. Hunters and bureaucrats: power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest Yukon. UBC press, 2003.

Harding, Sandra. Objectivity and diversity: Another logic of scientific research. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Jasanoff, Sheila. "New modernities: Reimagining science, technology and development." Environmental Values 11, no. 3 (2002): 253-276.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. Zed Books Ltd., 2013.