Learning together: Insights on knowledge production from a study on sexual and gender-related violence

Identifier:  imarina:9567973

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9567973

Authors:  Araiza, Alejandra; Cagliero, Sara; Biglia, Barbara

Abstract:
This article reflects on a feminist research project examining responses to sexual and gender-related violence in universities in Mexico's Central Altiplano region and Catalonia (Spain). Aiming to generate joint knowledge and foster dialogue across contexts, the project faced challenges in achieving a truly horizontal and participatory methodology, despite its feminist and decolonial intentions. By critically analysing our own research process, we highlight the need to reflect on power dynamics and call for a practice of 'response-ability' that acknowledges privilege and inequality. The article advocates for rethinking research methodologies to embrace difference, resist homogenisation and promote collaborative, feminist as well as decolonised knowledge production. Ultimately, it presents feminist research as a transformative practice that values diversity and challenges dominant, universalist narratives in academia.