Book talk with Sonja Marzi, Rachel Pain, and Jen Tarr about their new book "Researching Displacement Together: Co-producing Knowledge with Women in Colombia". Professor Cathy McIlwaine from KCL will join as discussant. 

About 'Researching Displacement Together' from Routledge:

This book showcases how to co-produce research when we are unable to meet in the same geographical space. It details a remote and hybrid audio-visual participatory methodology through which women share their experiences of displacement, gender, and the city.

Writing as researchers and filmmakers in the UK and Colombia, alongside 24 displaced women in Bogotá and Medellín, this participatory audio-visual project explores displacement from the women’s perspectives. The book is innovative in its collaborative writing and its combination of audio-visual and textual material. It presents a methodology for remote and hybrid research, advocating for more inclusive, equitable, and decolonising research interactions. Through three co-written chapters, it contributes to themes of displacement, gender, and the city, as displaced women share testimonies and audio-visual outputs, revealing experiences of violence, conflict, and aspirations for change as they rebuild their lives.

This book stands out for its collaborative authorship and integration of text with audio-visual material, offering rich insights. It will interest researchers and practitioners working inside and outside universities who are interested in developing remote, hybrid, and audio-visual participatory methodologies, as well as those who want to understand more about displacement and the challenges of urban resettlement from women’s perspectives.

After reading this book we'd appreciate if you could let us know what you think by answering some quick questions: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/co-producing-knowledge-with-displaced-women-in-colombia

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license.

Discussants

Professor Cathy McIlwaine

Professor Cathy McIlwaine is a feminist geographer who has a BA (Geography) and MA (Latin American Studies) from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining King's, Cathy held positions in the Geography Departments of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Queen Mary University of London. She also worked at the World Bank as a Social Scientist Research Project Manager in Washington DC. 

About the Interrogating Development Seminar Series

The 'Interrogating Development' seminar series is organised by the Department of International Development at King's College London. The series examines some of the most pressing issues of development facing global society today, with the authors of new books presenting cutting-edge research on a variety of topics related to development.

The talk will be followed by a wine reception. The event is open to everyone.