Apurahat ja residenssipaikat Tiede Decolonizing non-Western social transformation Päähakija PhD, University Lecturer and Researcher Ristivojevic Dusica Myöntösumma 158350 € Tukimuoto Yleinen rahoitushaku Alat Globaalin etelän tutkimus Myöntövuosi 2018 Jos omistat hankkeen, voit kirjautua sisään ja lisätä hankkeen tietoja. Kirjaudu sisään Jaa: Takaisin apurahalistaukseen This research will analyze broadly resonating Western narratives on non-Western social transformation and the ways in which its agents engage with these discourses. The research has two key objectives: to explore the (potential) impact of circulating textual and visual representations, and to think about how to deal with the unequal power relations in the context of critical interdependences. The research will use the methods of textual and visual media analysis, semi-structured interviews and participant observation. It will aspire to produce the knowledge relevant beyond academia and to boldly experiment with more inclusive, dialogic and power-balancing research process. In doing so, this research will tell us more about the actual enactment of the position which is critical to both local and global unequal, discriminatory and exploitative power relations. Loppuraportin tiivistelmä This research focuses on transnational links of Chinese social activist in post-Tiananmen China. It has two key objectives: to explore the dynamics of past and present global activist exchanges and support networks, and to think about how to practice decolonization of activism and its transnational support in the contexts of globally growing authoritarianism, geopolitical tensions, and unequal access to resources. The project looks at distinct yet interconnected sites of international attention, political and collaborative interests, and Chinese activist initiatives and endeavors. First, it analyses the anglophone media reports on Chinese social activism by being attentive to the interlocked dynamics of international interest in activism, China’s inner politics and policies, and China’s position in global affairs. In this section of research, the attention is placed on the imaginary created and disseminated by the US and the UK media outlets, as well as on the diasporic alliances of the Chinese activists. Second, this research decentres the UK- the US axes of global civil society networks and brings to the fore Sino-Nordic activists exchanges and the importance of the connections of Chinese social activists with their peers from the global South and European postsocialist contexts. Finally, an attempt to think about what it means to do decolonization as a researcher, as a supporter, and as a non-Western social activist comes to be grounded in participation and observation of a series of co-organized knowledge-sharing events and academic writing directed by the activists themselves. Takaisin apurahalistaukseen