Research partnerships across international contexts : a practice of unity or plurality?
Abstract
Partnership is not a benign practice; it is culturally and ethically loaded. The way in which partnerships are construed in international research determines its design, ethics and impacts. Despite this, and the growing assumption of partnership practice in our field, the concept has become increasingly abstract and the practice under-analysed. This article provides critical perspectives of current understandings of partnership in international development research from three angles: the motivations behind partnership working; an epistemological perspective in relation to epistemic justice and the agency of language; and finally, the systems that mediate partnerships, and the range of resources that guide them.
Citation
Perry , M , Sharp , J , Aanyu , K , Robinson , J , Duclos , V & Ferdous , R 2022 , ' Research partnerships across international contexts : a practice of unity or plurality? ' , Development in Practice , vol. 32 , no. 5 , pp. 635-646 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2022.2056579
Publication
Development in Practice
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0961-4524Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/T025034/1].Collections
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