Art-Based Research, Decoloniality, and Gender-Based Violence: Voices of Women Students from India

• In Event: Virtual Poster Session
  In Virtual iPresentation Only: SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research Virtual Poster Session

Abstract

Sensitive topics such as gender-based violence present epistemological challenges for qualitative researchers because of the taboo surrounding sex and the challenges linked to re-traumatization. In this presentation, I will show how I employed art-based methods in tandem with narrative inquiry in my research on GBV with university students in India to foster a decolonial ethics of care geared towards minimizing participant harm. A decolonial approach to qualitative inquiry identifies and acknowledges the power inequities inherent within traditional research practices by repositioning participants at the center of the research. Overall, the presentation contributes to generative conversations in the field of qualitative research around the need for paradigmatic transformations that acknowledge and resist the epistemic oppression created by colonial legacies and knowledge systems.

Author

• Ruchi Saini, University of Central Florida