Reflecting on the Enterprise of Research Through the Lens of Linda Smith – Umang Verma
Research and epistemic violence The word ‘research’ is probably one of the dirtiest words in the Indigenous world’s vocabulary, argues…
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future edited by Irfan Ahmed (2024): A Review by Adarsh Shahi
What do we do when we do anthropology? Ethnography? An almost reflexive answer in today’s time. This growing conflation between…
Navigating Methodological Terrains: Indian Researchers and African Interlocutors Building Shared Understanding – Shambhavi Bhushan
Moving Through Life In today’s discussion, I aim to highlight the parallels between the experiences of migrant interlocutors in the…
Feminist Methodologies in International Relations edited by Brooke A. Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True (2006): A Review by Mansi Malhotra
International relations as a formal discipline is relatively new and the feminist perspective in it has an even more recent…
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
‘Research is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’ (p.1). Linda Tuhiwai Smith, a leading decolonization theorist,…
A Book Discussion on Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations
In this conversation, we discuss Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas’ edited book Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations (published by Routledge…
Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations edited by Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas (2022): A Review by Indumathi Sundararaman
Modern science and the scientific method emerged in the western context. Its Eurocentric approach was naturalized and this institutionalisation of…
Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives, Social Forces and Negotiations edited by Achla Pritam Tandon, Gopi Devdutt Tripathy and Rashi Bhargava (2020): A Review by Rituparna Patgiri
It is a happy coincidence that I completed reading the edited volume titled Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives,…