Recommended Readings
The below recommendations represent some of the important literature that has influenced our thinking on The Politics of Representation. We are always looking of suggestions of work to add: email us PolofRep@gmail.com
Alatas, S. H. (1977) The Myth of the Lazy Native, London: Routledge
Alcoff, L. (2006) Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, New York: Oxford University Press
Alfonso, A. I. Kurti, L. & Pink, S. (2004) Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography, Routledge
Aluwihare-Samaranayake, D. (2012) ‘Ethics in Qualitative Research: A View of the Participants’ and Researchers’ World from a Critical Standpoint,’ International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 11(2): 64 -81
Anand, D. (2007) ‘Western Colonial Representations of the Other: The Case of Exotica Tibet,’ New Political Science, 29(1): 23–42
Barnes, C. (1992) Disabling imagery and the media: An exploration of the principle for media representations of disabled people, London: BCODP
Bhabha, H. K. (1994) The Location of Culture, London: Routledge
Block, P. Kasnotz, D. Nishida, A. & Pollard, N. (2015) Occupying disability: Critical approaches to community, justice and decolonising disability, New York, NY: Springer
Burnard, P. Mackinley, E. & Powell, K. (2016) The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research, Routledge International Handbooks
Suggested Chapters:
— Chapter 2: Robertson, C. ‘The beauty of a story: toward an Indigenous art theory’
— Chapter 6: Mackinlay, E. ‘In danger of relation, in danger of performance, in danger of research: an ethical conversation with Hélène Cixous about writing as intercultural arts praxis’
— Chapter 11: Hofvander Trulsson, Y. & Burnard, P. ‘Insider, outsider or cultures in-between: ethical and methodological considerations in intercultural arts research’
— Chapter 26: Thomson, P. ‘Researching ‘voice’ in intercultural arts practices and contexts’
Denzin, N. K. & Giardina, M. D. (eds) (2007) Decolonizing and politics of knowledge: Ethical futures in qualitative research, Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press
Frederickson, G. (1987) The Black Image in the White Mind, Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press
Goldberg, S. (2018) ‘For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It,’ National Geographic, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/from-the-editor-race-racism-history/
Griffiths, M. (1998) Educational Research for Social Justice: Getting off the Fence (Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings), Open University Press
Hall, S. (1997) ‘The Work of Representation,’ in Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practice, London: Sage
Ladson-Billings, G. (2003) ‘Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies,’ in Denzin, N. K. & Lincoln, Y. S. (eds) The landscape of qualitative research: Theories and Issues, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp.398–432
Mohanty, C. T. (1984) ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,’ boundary 2, 12/13(3): 333–358
Ngugi Wa’ Thiong’o (1984) ‘Literature and Society: The Politics of the Canon,’ in Killam, G.D. Critical Perspectives on Ngugi, Washington DC: Three Continents Press, pp. 7–45
Ortega, M. (2013) ‘Photographic Representation of Racialized Bodies: Afro-Mexicans, the Visible and the Invisible,’ Philosophy of Race, 1(2): 163–189
Quereshi, S. (2011) Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, University of Chicago Press: Chicago
Page, T. (2017) ‘vulnerable writing as a feminist methodological practice,’ Feminist Review, 115(1): 13–29
Pickering, L. & Kara, H. (2017) ‘Presenting and representing others: towards an ethics of engagement,’ International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(3): 299–309
Race Media and Representations Blog: https://raceandmediablog.wordpress.com/
Said, E. (1994) Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage
Shohat, E. (1995) ‘The Struggle over Representation: Casting, Coalitions and the Politics of Identification,’ in de la Campa, R. Kaplan, A. & Sprinkler, M. Late Imperial Culture, New York: Verso
Spivak, G. (1983) ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ — http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/Spivak%20CanTheSubalternSpeak.pdf
Sultana, F. (2007) ‘Reflexivity, Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research,’ ACME,
Tikly, L.P. & Bond, T. N. (2013) ‘Towards a postcolonial research ethics in comparative and international education. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 43(4), 422–442
Tisdale, K. (2008) ‘Being Vulnerable and being ethical with/in research,’ in De Marrais, K. B. & Lapan, S. D. Foundations for Research: Method of inquiry in education and the social sciences (inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts series), London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Tuhiwai Smith, L. (1999) Decolonizing Methodologies, New York: Palgrave
Walder, D. (2009) “Writing, Representation, and Postcolonial Nostalgia”. Textual Practice, Vol.23(6): 935–946. Oxford: Routledge.
Young, J. & Brunk, C. G. (2012) ‘Reflections on Cultural Appropriation as the Representation of Other Cultures,’ The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, Wiley: Blackwell
