The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers Volume 10

Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators. We often assume a person residing in a refugee camp, lacking funding, training, social networks, and other material resources that enable the research and writing of academic history, cannot be a historian because a historian cannot be a person residing in a refugee camp.The Right to Research disrupts this tautology by featuring nine works by refugee and host-community researchers from across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Identifying the intrinsic challenges of making space for diverse voices within a research framework and infrastructure that is inherently unequal, this edited volume offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and perspectives to bear. Chapters address topics such as education in Kakuma Refugee Camp, the political power of hip-hop in Rwanda, women migrants to Yemen, and the development of photojournalism in Kurdistan. Exploring what it means to become a researcher, The Right to Research understands historical scholarship as an ongoing conversation - one in which we all have a right to participate.

Author: Kate Reed
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 01/15/2023
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780228014553
ISBN10: 0228014557
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | 21st Century
- Social Science | Essays
- Social Science | Refugees

About the Author
Kate Reed is a PhD student in history at the University of Chicago. Marcia C. Schenck is professor of global history at the University of Potsdam.