Zsuzsanna Chappell, POPLEX Founder. Minoritised Scholars in Academic Research: A Proposal for Inclusive Practice
Abstract
One of the key roles of academics who research phenomena which are related to their own minoritisation (“minoritised scholars”) is to bring innovation to research by having been sensitised to problematic aspects of the existing scholarship through their own lived experience. Yet, they face a number of well-documented difficulties, including epistemic oppression, epistemic injustice, epistemic exploitation, excess epistemic deference and microaggression. While these problems are clearly documented, few solutions are currently offered. In this paper I suggest that some aspects of democratic deliberation could be usefully applied here. I discuss three of these aspects: boundary-setting, agenda-setting and countertalk.