Hermeneutical Justice in an International Erasmus Mundus Research Project

International research collaborations can base their research focus, questions and interpretations of the issue on Western assumptions of knowledge. This can delegitimise the potential contributions of some project partners and silence their interpretations of the issue. International projects can therefore be spaces of what Fricker calls ‘hermeneutical injustice’. This chapter uses Quijano’s work on coloniality to identify enduring patterns of power that inform and shape frames of reference, culture and knowledge production in the colonised regions of the world. It argues that research collaborations should be based upon the recognition, understanding, and exchange of knowledges and interpretations of concepts and realities in multiple directions and dimensions. They should be based upon the justice of equality between people in their capacity as knowers and knowledge creators. To exemplify these issues, the chapter describes and explains practices in an Erasmus Mundus project. It reflects on and analyses the approaches adopted in the project to promote epistemic justice.