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Ideals of justice shape how we do our research even if we are not always explicit about how justice, and the way we understand how justice works within our lives, impacts on our research questions, stakeholders, methods or dissemination strategies. This chapter introduces key concepts and talks explicitly about how this edited book emerged. We argue for the importance of opening the ‘black box’ of research methods, positioning this within a multifaceted and grounded ‘justice-as-praxis’ perspective that centres justice in our lives and our research practices. The chapter moves on to consider the key elements of just research practices, reflecting on the ‘doings and sayings’ that constitute research, the need for both a broad and inclusive ‘who’ of research and to decolonize research relations and agendas, alongside the conflicting pulls of different ideologies of ‘good scholarship’. The chapter then presents the author brief and outlines the book structure, before concluding with a personal commentary from one of the editors on the perceived perils and pitfalls of honest disclosures of research practices.
This chapter reflects on the volume’s contributions, recognizing the varied and contested ways we enact justice in our work and lives. Critically, this book does not represent a singular view of justice, but instead uses a plurality of perspectives to argue for a broad view of justice as praxis. What emerged from these diverse accounts were a common questioning of the purpose of the university, the role that a contemporary academic ought to play, the importance of context in determining our capability to do just research and the little-discussed emotional labour all research entails. The chapter develops a set of core elements for ‘best practice’ alongside a series of reflective questions that researchers can use to support engagement with just research as a messy and constant work-in-progress. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the importance of being responsive to the dynamic, multidimensional and intersectional contextuality of research to make space for the reflexive and dialogical nature of justice.
Understanding justice, for many, begins with questions of injustice. This volume pushes us to consider the extent to which our scholarly and everyday practices are, or can become, socially just. In this edited collection, international contributors reflect on what the practice of ‘justice’ means to them, and discuss how it animates and shapes their research across diverse fields from international relations to food systems, political economy, migration studies and criminology.
Giving insights into real life research practices for scholars at all levels, this book aids our understanding of how to employ and live justice through our work and daily lives.
The concept of the postsecular is addressed, referring to emergent spaces where faith-based and secular interests collaborate. The chapter sets out the argument that FBOs are not tools of neoliberalism, supported by case material including empirical examples of London citizens (UK) and CARF (The Netherlands). The cases are connected with the political and ethical promise of FBOs in urban spaces.
