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
Date
In publication
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
167-177
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
1476-7724
URL
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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