The Right to Research

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Title

The Right to Research

Abstract/Description

This paper argues that research be recognised as a right of a special kind – that it be regarded as a more universal and elementary ability. It suggests that research is a specialised name for a generalised capacity to make disciplined inquires into those things we need to know, but do not know yet. I maintain that knowledge is both more valuable and more ephemeral due to globalisation, and that it is vital for the exercise of informed citizenship. I acknowledge the 30% of the total world population in poorer countries who may get past elementary education to the bottom rung of secondary and post‐secondary education, and state that one of the rights that this group ought to claim is the right to research – to gain strategic knowledge – as this is essential to their claims for democratic citizenship. I then explore the democratisation of the right to research, and the nexus between research and action, using the Mumbai‐based Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) as an example.

Author/creator

Appadurai, Arjun

Date

2006

In publication

Globalisation, Societies and Education

Volume

4

Issue

2

Pages

167-177

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Keywords

citizenship

globalisation

human rights

knowledge

PUKAR

research

Open access/free-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

1476-7724

DOI

10.1080/14767720600750696

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Arjun Appadurai)

Citation

Appadurai, A. (2006). The Right to Research. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 4(2), 167–177. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767720600750696

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Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research

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