Critical Research Ethics as Decolonial Praxis
Prof. Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
Professor in Public Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research
University of Bremen
ABSTRACT
Using the keynote lecture by a white male political scientist at a Southeast Asian studies conference in Europe about the 2022 Philippine elections as an illustrative example of pervasive coloniality in academia, I discuss the urgency of confronting the embeddedness of knowledge production in imperial, colonial and patriarchal ideologies, practices and histories – and its complicities with oppression. I posit that crucial in this project is a critical paradigm of research ethics that is oriented towards rehumanisation and redistribution. Such research ethics is an integral part of decolonial praxis, which is the dynamic process of thought-action-reflection-action aimed at rehumanising the world, redistributing resources and producing counter-knowledges and counter-praxes. This ethics challenges and holds accountable Eurocentric and patriarchal ways of being, doing, thinking and relating in order to imagine and build alternative worlds, presents and futures.
About the Speaker
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo is a sociocultural anthropologist, curator, and publicly engaged scholar. She is currently a substitute professor of public anthropology at the University of Bremen and formerly an interim professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Institute for Asian and African Studies and curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Her interdisciplinary research and initiatives on social justice issues, resistance and solidarity, imagination and memory, and affect and healing are guided by critical, decolonial, indigenous, and feminist epistemologies and praxes. She also specializes in critical research ethics, alternative pedagogies, and community-engaged scholarship, as well as reaching broader publics through reflexive, multi-sensorial, multi-format, and research-based modes of learning.
Program
Date: 10 JANUARY 2024 (Wed)
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Venue: Asian Center, UP Diliman & Zoom
10:00 to 10:15 AM
Opening Remarks & Introduction of Speaker
Dr. Antoinette Raquiza
Professor, Asian Center & Chair, Southeast Asian Studies Consortium (SEASIA) 2024 Conference
University of the Philippines Diliman
10:15 to 10:45 AM
Critical Research Ethics as Decolonial Praxis
Prof. Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
Professor in Public Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research
University of Bremen
10:45 to 11:00 AM
Discussant’s Remarks
Dr. Ramon Guillermo
Professor and Director, Center for International Studies
University of the Philippines Diliman
11:00 to 11:45 AM
Open Forum
Moderator
Dr. Sol Iglesias
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of the Philippines Diliman
11:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Dr. Henelito Sevilla, Jr.
Dean, Asian Center
University of the Philippines Diliman