Dickinson, Jen and Uwimanzi, Natasha (2024) Disrupting the field? Creating community-centred spaces for epistemic justice with Rwandese diaspora youth. In, Herman, Agatha and Inwood, Josh (eds.) Researching Justice: Engaging with Questions and Spaces of (In)Justice through Social Research. (Spaces and Practices of Justice) 1 ed. Bristol. Bristol University Press, pp. 67-87. (doi:10.2307/jj.9692627.10).
Abstract
There is an urgent need to pluralize knowledge inquiry and production in the research about Rwanda. Conceptualized as a form of epistemicide (or, killing of knowledge), the systemic biases and highly partisan nature of Western epistemologies continues to deny the diverse ways that Rwandans make sense of their lives (Rutazibwa, 2014). Undoing epistemic injustice requires enabling individuals whose knowledge has been historically invalidated to assert their rights to contribute to, and derive benefits from, the shared knowledge pool (de Sousa Santos, 2015). In the Rwandan context, alongside including more Rwandan academic voices, epistemic justice requires reimagining research approaches, methodologies and...
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