Reflecting on race and whiteness in international research projects
Date: 19th February 2021
Time: 12-14:00
Location: Zoom
This talk will build on the speakers’ recent paper on race and whiteness in contemporary research in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
About this Event
The presentation will analyse the manifestations of race and whiteness in contemporary international research partnerships, particularly the racially structured inequalities that underpin these projects and the different ways in which they are concealed and tapped upon. Building on this, the authors will reflect on wider research ethics in research partnerships.
Speakers
Aimable Amani Lameke is the director of Marakuja Kivu Research. As a researcher, he has 13 years of experience researching the social, economic and political transformations eastern DRC, and has worked with a range of Congolese, European and North American Universities and research institutions.
Gauthier Marchais is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He works on social transformation in contexts of violent conflict. His current research focuses on education in contexts of protracted violence, with a focus on the provinces of South Kivu and Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Christian PolePole Bazuzi is researcher on rural development. He has more than 10 years of experience in mixed methods academic research, across the provinces of eastern DRC. He has expertise on monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian projects, and has worked in conflict-affected areas, including on non-state armed groups. He is currently a research supervisor at Marakuja Kivu Research, and a trainer and supervisor of the Crisis Observatory Program of the World Bank.
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