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Science and Knowledge Production - Which Way?

How can we build structures for co-creation and co-production of knowledges that involve all stakeholders - in North and South, research, practice, civil society? How can foundations be laid to ensure collaborative knowledge building? These were the questions discussed in our panel session at the recent World Social Science Forum, 24-28 September 2018, in Fukuoka, Japan. The diversity of the presentations highlighted the many good and important initiatives that already exist and that are involving stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and geographic and social origins - which left room for careful optimism. However, as one participant pinpointed: “We need to revisit established knowledge frames, and for that we need trust, inclusion and commitment.” There is much work still to be done. The session started with an input by Oluwole Coker (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria), who talked about the importance and agency of translations in relation to indigenous knowledge systems. He especially stressed that for global solutions to global problems “everyone needs to bring something to the table” and called for a global episteme. Sonja Ganseforth (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Japan) in her talk shed light on structures of power and knowledge production in international donor policies and controversially posed the question: Whose truths are valid? Gilles Dubochet (Ideas Belong, Belgium) and Francesco Obino (Global Development Network, India) in an engaging dialogue brought in perspectives from a practitioners perspective and presented Research Practice Networks as a format for a more inclusive approach to knowledge (co-)production and North-South/South-South knowledge co-creation. Dubochet made clear: “Collaboration does not happen by accident. Facilitation is key.” Ritu Priya (Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal-Nehru-University, India) approached knowledge production and development from a health system lens and explored ways to shift the research agenda from developmentalism to a politics of knowledge framework. She underlined Coker’s call for a global episteme in stressing the importance of an epistemological pluralism in which different voices are equally heard. Following Priya’s input, Irene Blackberry (John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, La Trobe University, Australia) shared insights from a research partnership model between health services and universities with the aim of facilitating knowledge exchange and research translation. World Social Science Forum 2018 http://www.wssf2018.org/ If you want to know more about EADI, the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, please visit https://www.eadi.org