Stories of Violence, War, and Displacement: Intersections of Life, Research, and Knowledge Production
A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2023) | Viewed by 20449
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Genealogy welcomes articles on the topic: "Stories of Violence, War, and Displacement: Intersections of Life, Research, and Knowledge Production". Contributors are invited to reflect upon the intersections between their research on violence, war and/or displacement, and their own life trajectories. How does research about socio-political processes that produce injustice, cause violence, and inflict pain, impact those who do research? How do the lives of social scientists shape their research interests and/or their methodological approaches? How do gender and other identities, value systems and politics, embedded and embodied in the lives of researchers shape their scholarly work? How do the lives, agency, and resistance of research participants who have experienced violence, war and/or displacement, enable scholarly understanding and shape the process of knowing? What does it mean to do research and engage in knowledge production about socio-political processes that produce injustice and generate pain with which researchers have personal experiences? Or in places they came from? By exploring a plurality of perspectives and how they influence one another, this Special Issue engages with the question of knowledge co-production from different standpoints and lived experiences.
Although feminist standpoint theories and related epistemologies have influenced certain niche areas of scholarship in the past few decades, many aspects of the research process in most social science fields remain unspoken about, silenced and hidden. The role of emotions, gender and other identities, political commitments and relationships in shaping research are seldom at the center of scholarly attention, particularly in studies about conflict, peace, and displacement. This Special Issue engages with multidimensional understanding of research by deploying feminist, multi-systems, and relational approaches to doing research, creating knowledge, and contributing to positive social change.
This Special Issue welcomes both essay and narrative forms of writing or a combination of the two to accommodate different research and life contexts, as well as enquiry approaches.
All papers submitted to this Special Issue will be published free of charge.
Some of the potential areas of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- positionality in research
- lived experiences and life stories
- (war/state) violence
- displacement/implacement
- ethnic/national/indigenous/racial identity
- resistance and agency
- embodied knowledge
- epistemic violence
- coloniality of power and knowledge
Tentative completion schedule:
- Abstract submission deadline: March 2023
- Notification of abstract acceptance: April 2023
- Full manuscript deadline: July 2023
Dr. Maja Korać
Guest Editor
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