Utilizing Dariro (Ubiquitous Circle) as a social science research method / Allan Tapiwa Maganga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maganga, Allan Tapiwa, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

When soliciting data from Africa's indigenous communities or nonspeakers of languages of wider communication, quite often, research methods utilised by external researchers in the fields of social studies in Africa are universalised, choreographed, or deeply rooted in Western paradigms. Research assistants are usually deployed with question-and-answer templates which quite often seem to be insufficient so far as exhaustively exploring sociocultural issues is concerned. The usually relied-upon qualitative methods do not only shove the African respondents to the periphery (instead of the centre) but are also limiting in relation to fully gathering data on any given topic from the respondents. Thus this guide offers an Afro-centred data gathering method, utilising Dariro (Ubiquitous Circle) as an alternative Social Science Research Method. Grounded in indigenous Africans' relational worldview, this approach is reliable for prospective field researchers in the disciplines of African studies, social sciences, or any other related disciplines slanted towards generating qualitative data. The Dariro mode as a data-gathering strategy minimises the perpetuation of research inequalities, because key informants participate by using the ethical and centred dialoguing that they are culturally rooted in. The respondents become mainstreamed rather than marginalised in the knowledge-generation puzzle. Against this exposition, Dariro affords the respondents a platform to generate ideas ‘natively' through discussions and analysis in situ. In brief, the method tries to lessen generalisations and dislocation of reality from its knowledge producers.

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ISBN:

1-5296-9237-7

9781529692372

OCLC:

1428170218