An Epistemological Break: Redefining Participatory Research in Capabilitarian Scholarship.

In addition, international development researchers may sometimes unknowingly reinforce and reproduce knowledge asymmetries, ignoring the knowledges that communities possess or the limits on their own reflexivity in the absence of epistemic humility. They conceptualise university capabilities towards climate justice as "the resources, systems, relationships, values and organisational culture that shape the capabilities of universities to promote social and environmental outcomes". They showcase how the dialogical and participatory nature of collaboration among the research team (local researchers, desk researchers, intermediaries in the field and PI) were crucial in bringing the realities of the communities where their research were conducted into epistemic production spaces to diversify knowledge and initiate a locally-rooted research process. [Extracted from the article]