TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Counterstorytelling as epistemic justice: decolonial community-based praxis from the Global South
JO  - American journal of community psychology
A1  - Dutta, Urmitapa
A1  - Azad, Abdul Kalam
A1  - Hussain, Shalim M.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - In this paper, we present community-anchored counterstorytelling as a form of epistemic justice. We-the Miya Community Research Collective-engage in counterstorytelling as a means of resisting and disrupting dehumanization of Miya communities in Northeast India. Miya communities have a long history of dispossession and struggle - from forced displacement by British colonial rulers in the early 19th century to the present where they face imminent threats of statelessness. Against this backdrop, we theorize "in the flesh" to interrogate knowledges and representations systematically deployed to dispossess Miya people. Simultaneously, we uplift stories and endeavors that (re)humanize Miya people, creating/claiming cultural, knowledge, and political spaces that center peoples' struggles and resistance. Across these stories, we offer counterstorytelling as a powerful mode of recentering knowledges from the margins-a decolonial alternative to neoliberal epistemes that maintain institutions/universities as centers of knowledge production.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0091-0562
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12545
ID  - ref1
ER  -