Exploring the Complexities of Transformative Scholarship Through Engagement with Refugee Knowledge Co-creators
摘要
While academic literature is rife with researchers reflecting on complexities in their own co-creative research practices, this chapter presents insights into how knowledge co-creators with a refugee background themselves contemplate about (negotiating) power in co-creative research. Specifically, the chapter reveals knowledge co-creators’ reflections on inclusive co-creation, creating a safe space, unsettling control and ownership, and meaningful impact of co-creative research. Importantly, the results of this chapter stress that knowledge co-creators are reflective about and actively negotiate power issues permeating research. We therefore argue that acknowledging people with a refugee background as agentive and reflective knowledge co-creators implies that it is not only researchers who have to stay reflective about power permeating their co-creative practices. Instead, we suggest to approach knowledge co-creation as practices in which everyone involved should aim to simultaneously unsettle other people’s taken-for-granted assumptions while staying open for their own taken-for-granted assumptions to be unsettled.