Acompañamiento as ethical practice: challenging coloniality and academic extractivism in feminist research

Silvana Tapia Tapia

Chapter 25 in Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law, 2026, pp 411-423 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter addresses the intertwined dynamics of coloniality and academic extractivism. Drawing on participatory research in collaboration with anti-carceral feminist collectives, as well as the author's lived experience as a non-white Latin American researcher, the chapter considers avenues for an anti-colonial and feminist ethics that informs empirical inquiry, particularly on law's violence against women. After examining how colonial power relations are reproduced within the context of academia and how they perpetuate epistemic violence, the chapter interrogates the dominant paradigm in socio-legal research by contrasting academic extractivism with practices of resource redistribution, trust-building and long-term acompañamiento (committed accompaniment). The author puts forth these practices as a means of mitigating the negative effects of extractivism and proposes a sustainable and community-engaged research praxis that prioritizes the materiality of life to prefigure a fairer world beyond the scope of a given research project.

Keywords: Research Methods; Anti-colonial Feminism; Empirical Research; Academic Extractivism; Coloniality; Research Ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035319398
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