Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonizing methodologies in Southern contexts

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dc.contributor.authorBozalek, Vivienne
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-01T14:10:12Z
dc.date.available2013-02-01T14:10:12Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractParticipatory Learning and Action (PLA) research techniques can contribute to decolonising methodologies by alerting participants to privilege and marginalisation through encounters across difference. Consciousness of privileges is often obscured and naturalised as part of normative expectations of everyday living. This paper contends that no one is exempt from interrogating their positionality and their beliefs, and that PLA research techniques can provide the means by which people can be confronted with privileges and marginality through encountering the ‘other’. A case study conducted across Higher Education Institutions in South Africa is presented to show how PLA techniques can make a substantial contribution to processes of research. The case study shows how PLA research techniques make it possible to bring people together to confront differential privileges, thus giving people the opportunity to become both insiders and committed outsiders in their interactions across differences.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationBozalek, V. (2011): Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonising methodologies in Southern contexts, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 14(6): 469-484en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/528
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author's final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source. The published item is copyright Taylor & Francis.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2011.611383
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectParticipatory Learning and Action research techniquesen_US
dc.subjectPrivilege
dc.subjectMarginalisation
dc.subjectPositionality
dc.subjectInsiders and committed outsiders
dc.subjectDecolonising methodologies
dc.titleAcknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonizing methodologies in Southern contextsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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