CBRCanada CoP – June discussion infographic and September 13th CoP
Comunity of Practice CoP Discussion Summary June 2024 Inforgraphic Snapshot
Next CoPDate: Friday, September 13th from 12-1:30pm ET (*this CoP is longer than the usual 60 minutes)
Topic:
Responsibilities in Decolonization as a Community-Based Researcher
Guest Speaker:
Ranjan Datta, PhD. Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at the Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada. Ranjan is a Senior Scientist for the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Ranjan’s research interests include community disaster research, responsibilities for anti-racist and decolonial research, community-based climate change research, and engaging in cross-cultural community research endeavours. Ranjan has contributed significantly to the academic discourse with a total of 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including with cross-cultural community Elders, Knowledge-keepers, and youths.
Inside the Session:
As a decolonial and anti-racist community-based researcher, I will share my decolonial journey as a responsibility to transform who I am and who I need to be. Drawing on my reflective learning from 17 years of community-based research, I have learned how to challenge and dismantle colonial structures within research methodologies. In this session, I will highlight the importance of responsibility in community-based research to decolonize both our research and us as researchers. Through this presentation, I aim to showcase that decolonization is all of our responsibility—a lifelong journey to transform our research as an action of change, centering community needs and promoting community-led and community-engaged research.
After the presentation, we hope you can join us for the discussion on ways we can center communities’ voices, experiences, and knowledge systems while critically examining our positionalities.
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We look forward to seeing you at the next discussion this Fall!
