“On the Way to Calvary, I Lost My Way”: Navigating Ethical Quagmires in Community Psychology at the Margins

Matutu, Haile

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5_8

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“…I apologise to Nomvula but my discomfort remains. This is an example of how my response to Nomvula's story prevented me from seeing and understanding her narrative, as well as how a focus on shared gender positioning (or in this case, shared experiences of rape) may ignore the differences that exist among womxn's experiences, because of intersecting positions of race, class, sexual orientation, age, politics, status, among others (Matutu, 2019; Phoenix, 1994; Warr, 2004).…”

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Attending to vulnerability in sexual violence research

Helman

2022

Feminism & Psychology

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Within research on sexual violence, womxn who have been raped are positioned as “vulnerable” participants, while researchers tend to occupy positions of “invulnerability”. Drawing on vulnerable moments from a research project which explored womxn's experiences of rape in South Africa, this paper proposes a (more) vulnerable engagement with narratives of rape. Through attending to how vulnerability is implicated in issues of silence and agency, shame, and my own failures to witness the experiences of my participants with care, I explore the epistemic and ethical possibilities of an affective approach to researching rape. This approach asks us, as researchers, to attend to the moments during our research in which we are affected, moved and disrupted.

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Attending to vulnerability in sexual violence research

Helman

2022

Feminism & Psychology

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Researching Violence, Researching Ourselves: Unsettling Knowledge Production on Gendered and Sexual Violence

Mhlangulana,

Zimri,

Thusi

et al. 2024

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The colonial nature in which academia has taken shape has meant that its practices of acquiring and producing knowledge are often violent towards those affected by sexual and gender-based violence. Shifting the praxis of how knowledge is understood and engaged in, means critiquing these traditionally colonial methods, as well as identifying new ways of engaging with academia and the framework of conducting research. Contributors of the Unsettling Knowledge Production on Gendered and Sexual Violence Project have undertaken this idea in their individual and collaborative work as a way to challenge, disrupt and change the sometimes violent nature of research on sexual and gender-based violence. These contributors believe that there is a responsibility for producing knowledge that is respectful and which contributes towards the goals of care, ethical engagement and social justice, from the inception of the research work through to its dissemination. In this article, we look at their reflections on what unsettling knowledge means for them as they simultaneously navigate and resist colonial structures within which their work still takes place. They describe their journeys within this unsettling and decolonial framing and how they try to enact it in their work on sexual and gender-based violence.

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Article-Processing Fees and Subsidies: The Colonial Entanglement of Knowledge Production in South Africa—The Case of Gender-Based Violence Research

Van den Brink,

Andrason

2024

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In this article, we studied the contribution of the current South African publishing ecosystem to the hierarchisation, elitism and monopolisation of knowledge production in social-justice studies, taking as an example the research area of gender-based violence (GBV). We examined the Sabinet database of articles published in South African journals on GBV between 2018 and 2022, and reviewed the pre- and post-production value chain related to the publication of these articles (especially the article page-fee structure and the governmental subsidy system). In addition, we couched this discussion in feminist decolonial critique. We conclude that the current publishing ecosystem—with the more or less active involvement and/or support of the government, journals and academics—greatly limits the diversity of voices able to contribute to the production of knowledge on GBV. This ecosystem hampers, minimises or even excludes the first-hand knowledge and experiences of those located outside of academic institutions (particularly, local researchers unaffiliated with South African universities, grassroot activists and members of non-governmental organisations). It conversely renders academics and the tertiary educational institutions which employ them as the only actors capable of benefiting financially from or contributing to the knowledge-production chain and, in return, feeding it. This cycle seems to propel the creation of an echo chamber of views, perspectives and opinions with academics and their tertiary educational institutions de facto acting as the only knowledge producers in the country. We propose that the solution to such an unjust situation is a radical decolonisation of the deeply epi-colonial South African publishing ecosystem.

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“On the Way to Calvary, I Lost My Way”: Navigating Ethical Quagmires in Community Psychology at the Margins

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Attending to vulnerability in sexual violence research

Attending to vulnerability in sexual violence research

Researching Violence, Researching Ourselves: Unsettling Knowledge Production on Gendered and Sexual Violence

Article-Processing Fees and Subsidies: The Colonial Entanglement of Knowledge Production in South Africa—The Case of Gender-Based Violence Research

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