Pragmatic Research, Critical Knowledge and Political Relevance: A Self-Reflexive Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface and Acknowledgements VII
4. About the Cover Image IX
5. Introduction: Reframing, Re-enacting Research and Collaboration 1
6. Part One: Openings
7. What Good Is Southern Theorising? 25
8. Marxism, Communitarianism and Communalism in Africa 43
9. Forum I: Decolonising Academic Cooperation 63
10. Forum II: ‘Reversing the Gaze’?! – Revisiting a Key Concept 95
11. Part Two: Reflections
12. The Conflicted Decolonial Scholar: A Journey Through the Dialectics of Becoming, Un-becoming and Being, in Struggle with the People 113
13. Feminist Research and Civil Society Engagement as Scholactivism: The Case of the Women and Memory Forum in Egypt 129
14. Pragmatic Research, Critical Knowledge and Political Relevance: A Self-Reflexive Perspective 151
15. Whose Stories, Whose Voices, Whose Narratives? Challenging the Western Gaze on Afghanistan – Exploring Ethical Knowledge Co-Production in Afghanistan 177
16. Academic Tamasha and Its Limits under the Shadow of Authoritarianism 201
17. Hegemony and Decolonising Research Praxis: A Researcher’s Journey in the Peripheries of Pakistan 215
18. A Political Ecology of Remembering for Dayaks of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo 249
19. Visualising Research in South Asia Beyond Pandemic Times: Reflections and Future Directions 275
20. List of Contributors 307