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fennia-124992	Torkaman Rad, Esfandyar; Torkaman Rad, Esfandyar	Radical understanding: reflections on knowledge production, power, positionality, and practices of refusal within academic research	2023	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4991	213	42	In order for POC researcher to cross the borders and to be authorized and accepted inside the process of the production of knowledge by academic authorities (Collins 1989; Khosravi 2007) the FENNIA 201(2) (2023) 255Esfandyar Torkaman Rad person has to adhere to several rules and hegemonic norms: firstly, they should assume their “possibility of native informant [which] is inscribed as evidence in the production of the scientific or disciplinary European knowledge of the culture of Others: from field-work through [theorizing]” (Spivak 1999, 66–67); secondly, they should prove their assimilation (Fanon 1961/2011), id est that they have sheerly integrated the right methods of knowledge production and that they consistently adhere to them; and lastly, and consequentially, they should obey the rule that it is always the dominants who produce knowledge about the dominated, that the South provides the ‘field’ and the North the theory (Khosravi 2019). It is a proposition of crossing borders and transgressing the rules and norms of White capitalist colonialist Eurocentric processes of knowledge production in order to create avant-garde frameworks of the definition and generation of knowledge (Mignolo 2009) based on oppressed and marginalized people’s ways of knowing.	cache/fennia-124992.pdf	txt/fennia-124992.txt