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Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice “Alejandra Boni and Melanie Walker’s marvellous collection assembles a set of highly insightful essays that blend the capability approach and participatory action research in order to fight epistemic injustices in higher education contexts. Highly congenial to Freirean pedagogy, the collection vividly demonstrates the epistemic and emancipatory power of participatory knowledge production from below.” —Julian Culp, The American University of Paris “This is a splendid book which makes a significant, important and original contribution to the broad field of education and social justice in eight exciting cases of substantial projects which involve participants who have been traditionally silent or silenced in different global contexts. It is a particularly timely book because debates about what it means to decolonise in educational settings is intensifying, and it shows both practically and theoretically how spaces can be created to give groups with traditionally little voice the means and opportunity to speak, to be heard and to become knowledge creators.” —Professor Monica Mclean, University of Nottingham “If our Universities are courageous enough, they will make the pursuit of wellbeing and social justice their primary purpose. To truly do this, however, Universities must acknowledge a plurality of knowledge systems, knowledge-­ making practices and communities of knowers. This requires a decolonial pathway grounded in accepting unjust histories, questioning and replacing existing unjust epistemic commitments and (as the authors demonstrate) building epistemic functionings and capabilities. This book shows us many of the ways that this can be done by exploring rich cases with communities in Africa, Latin America and Europe. A must-read for anyone interested in transforming higher education for just futures, grounded and engaged community research and furthering our understanding of knowledge and capabilities.” —Krushil Watene, Massey University

Melanie Walker  •  Alejandra Boni Editors

Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice A Transformative Agenda for Higher Education

Editors Melanie Walker University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa

Alejandra Boni INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València) Valencia, Spain Center for Development Support University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa

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