Researching justice: Engaging with questions and spaces of (in) justice through social research.

Herman, Agatha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-9726 and Inwood, Joshua, eds. 2024. Researching justice: Engaging with questions and spaces of (in) justice through social research. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

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Abstract

Research has long been a ‘black box’ owing to a reluctance by researchers to fully disclose the beliefs, relations, skills and materials underlying their research choices. In contrast, this edited collection makes space for researchers at different career stages, and from across the social sciences, to explore how ideals of justice – so prevalent in their conceptual work – are practised in terms of their research frameworks, methodologies, logistics and dissemination. What emerges are critical and reflexive insights that highlight the contested plurality of justice as research praxis. Nevertheless, shared interpretations ground justice in the encounter, acknowledging the emotional labour and ‘more-than-research’ nature of all academic investigations. This emphasizes a need to move away from extractive, neoliberal models of ‘good research’ towards a (re)centring of participant voices through a compassionate culture of care. Doing justice is therefore about accountable and dialogical action, which aims to unsettle asymmetries and epistemic silencing. As such, justice in research can be wielded as a challenge both to hegemonic forces within the academy but also to our, and others, preconceptions of what research and the university is for. Ultimately the context in which we work is critical in determining our capability to do just research. There are no quick fixes but the experiences of the chapter authors unpack a set of core elements for ‘best practice’ alongside three reflective questions, which we can all use to promote our engagement with just research as a messy but rewarding work-in-progress.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Edited Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
ISBN:	9781529226652
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2024 15:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169789

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