Knowledge production methods in human rights research: constraints and opportunities for the promotion of an interdisciplinary approach

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dc.contributor.authorCruz Ayuso, Cristina de la
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-27T14:53:16Z
dc.date.available2025-10-27T14:53:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-05
dc.date.updated2025-10-27T14:53:16Z
dc.description.abstractThis article asks about the current modes of production in human rights research and how they are (or may be) determined by the structures where that knowledge is generated. These questions will be answered by looking at the results of a preliminary study on the reception and subsequent institutionalisation of studies on human rights in stable structures that are dedicated to their research, training and dissemination in Spanish universities. The starting hypothesis is that this institutionalisation causes conceptual, epistemological and methodological biases in the rationales for knowledge construction in the field of human rights that determine and hinder the interdisciplinary approach demanded by its study. Interdisciplinarity has become a dominant aspect of human rights research. The question about how this feature is articulated and who articulates it in the academic institutional framework is pertinent in a field of knowledge that cannot avoid asymmetries in the production and circulation of knowledge. The results show that human rights research has been mainly institutionalised in stable university structures in Spain within the field of legal sciences, with a clear predominance of the area of the Philosophy of Law. It can be concluded that this has been conditioned by the reception and subsequent development of the study of human rights in Spain. While it has been found that the line developed by these centres and research groups has been consolidated and recognised, it can also be confirmed that their modes of knowledge production do not match the rationale of interdisciplinary research. These limitations are not just endogenous. There are some features of Spanish institutional R&D&i culture that make interdisciplinary research on human rights difficult.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research leading to this publication was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy as part of the research project entitled ā€˜Complex inequality in plural societies: Indicators for public policiesā€™ [DER2016-77711-P] and by the Basque government through the financial support granted to the activities of research groups in the Basque university system (IT1224-19)en
dc.identifier.citationCruz Ayuso, C. d. l. (2019). Knowledge production methods in human rights research: constraints and opportunities for the promotion of an interdisciplinary approach. The Age of Human Rights Journal, 13, 75-98. https://doi.org/10.17561/TAHRJ.N13.5
dc.identifier.doi10.17561/TAHRJ.N13.5
dc.identifier.eissn2340-9592
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/4103
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de JaƩn
dc.subject.otherHuman rights
dc.subject.otherEpistemology
dc.subject.otherKnowledge production
dc.subject.otherInterdisciplinary
dc.subject.otherResearch
dc.subject.otherInstitutionalisation
dc.subject.otherAcademic structures
dc.titleKnowledge production methods in human rights research: constraints and opportunities for the promotion of an interdisciplinary approachen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage98
oaire.citation.startPage75
oaire.citation.titleThe Age of Human Rights Journal
oaire.citation.volume13
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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