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Decentring knowledge
Decentring knowledge production
Many assumptions are made about migration worldwide. Discourse and narrative relating to migration is often pernicious, erroneous and uses stock concepts. It is also based on partial knowledge filtered through the knowledge regimes of the Global North and the media of the Global North. This blog seeks to lay bare the normative assumptions in research and discourse about migration and to open up a stream of work whereby the causes and effects of these discourses and inequalities in knowledge production relating to migration and development in the South and in the North, can be interrogated.
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Decentring knowledge
Coloniality, migration research and epistemic injustice
This blog introduces one part of these debates, namely recent critiques of Eurocentrism in migration research, and discusses it in relation to recent scholarship in feminist philosophy.
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Decentring knowledge
Artistic approaches to migration research
MIDEQ Co-I in South Africa, Faisal Garba, reflects on his experience of artistic approaches to migration research based on his involvement in creative arts intervention work facilitated by Gameli Tordzro in Cape Town August 2023
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Decolonising African costume and textile – naming, symbols and meaning in the Ghanaian context
This digital exhibition is based on practice led research over several years culminating in MIDEQ Researcher Naa Densua’s work in WP11 and with textiles in the Ghana-China, Malaysia-Nepal corridors, as well as for the UNESCO Chair at University of Glasgow.
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