Ilaha Abasli, Ahmed El Assal and Yasmine Hafez dissect the rationale behind southern researchers based in Western academia choosing countries other than their home, the fieldwork experience and the creation of post-fieldwork knowledge.
They jointly reflect on their fieldwork experience as Global South researchers doing research outside their home countries.
The authors emphasize the need to decolonize knowledge and (re)evaluate research ethics and training; they advocate for re-considering knowledge creation and power shifting as a process rather than the outcome and fieldwork as an essential knowledge creation component enabling post-knowledge production and doing research differently.
This article is the seed idea for their forthcoming edited volume with Routledge Rethinking Development Series on 'Global South Researchers in Development Studies: Positionality, Power and Vulnerability'.
Read the article online - 'Why are you not doing research in your home country? Dissecting expectations of Southern researchers' Development Practice, April 2025.
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Ilaha Abasli and Ahmed El Assal are part of the ADAPTED training network.
