Lecture 'Meet the PhD jury - Doing development: Epistemic Justice and the Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Research and development'
- For whom
- Employees , Students
- When
- 09-01-2025 from 10:00 to 12:00
- Where
- Projectlokaal A1.1, Faculteit Bio-Ingenieurswetenschappen, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- INSPIRA research group - Department of Agricultural Economics - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering & Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS ) & Human Rights Research Network
- Contact
- joost.dessein@ugent.be
- Website
- https://event.ugent.be/search?searchStr=doing+development
This seminar discusses how epistemic justice can be achieved in development processes and research.
While there are different forms of knowledge, not every knowledge is treated similarly when it comes to providing evidence for decision-making. Mostly, this role is reserved for academic knowledge.
While there are various ways to involve indigenous and local knowledge in academic research, this often does not lead to lasting recognition of these marginalised knowledge systems, unless explicit space is created for them.
The growing demand for the decolonization of (agricultural) development and the need for a more equitable society calls for greater pluralistic approaches as well as epistemic justice.
This seminar will explore what a genuinely participatory approach looks like . We will discuss how epistemic justice can be achieved in development processes and research.
With Dr. D. Azupogo (Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies, Ghana). Dr. D. Ludwig and Dr. B. Boogaard (WUR, Dpt of Knowledge Technology and Innovation) and Prof. J. Dessein (UGent, INSPIRA)