As a researcher, one question that keeps coming to my mind is: Is knowledge induced with the social, political, and cultural factors of the territorial context within which it is produced? Do countries give access to certain topics to be discussed and not others?
For example, as someone in the field of urbanism working in Egypt, can researchers discuss and publish papers regarding cities for women (feminist cities)?
How about the LGBTQ community?
How about the marginalized communities, e.g. black community, refugees, etc.
How about topics on religion?
How about politics? Topics that may tackle / criticize the ruling system
Regardless whether the researcher supports these topics or not, do you think a researcher has access to openly discuss them in countries that establish certain standards? (Any country in the world)
Dear Dr.Taher,
People today expect cities to be livable, cultural hubs with sustainable lifestyles. Interest in urban planning and development is growing in this setting. This curiosity has given rise to a new perspective on the goals and operations of cities. Cities should be enjoyed more as "culture havens" than as just places to live. To fulfill these desires, cities can be developed and renewed through cultural planning. Cultural planning has been a concept for more than 30 years, and many city planners are familiar with it. The goal is to involve locals in the planning process of how they want their cities to be, rather than just creating spaces where people can display art or host other cultural activities. Speaking with residents of the city or region where cultural planning will begin will help with this. In order to better understand the local cultural environment, this fosters cooperation between local residents and communities. Urban social innovation strategies, among other things. Interactions between citizens and cities are at the heart of everything. All members of a community will participate in the development of their city under this model, but the process will mostly be cultural rather than political. In order to improve living conditions, people from various political perspectives can come together. This actually occurs, and individuals have come together at the local level in their desire to better people's quality of life.
Ignoring the organizational culture and that of the context is one of the most dangerous mistakes that can be made, not only in the exercise of administration, but in any field of science. It is obvious that countries encourage discussion topics on certain issues (Germany, Great Britain), and others censor what can have a negative influence, according to the thought of the ruler (China, North Korea, Afghanistan).
Certainly, all scientific subjects are guided by the demand of their origin, and systematically, everything starts with the cultural, social and political question of the regions in question. Therefore, the themes are diversified and are dressed in accordance with their realities, that is, the characteristics of each country/state/nation. In addition, cultural-territorial factors gain strength in decision-making or, at least, in the direction that research will take.
All countries (and any other cohort of investigation) are inherently biased and skewed in investigation of scientific or any other manner, dependent on the ruling paradigm for that cohort. There is never any independence towards being able to report on the cohort/country without censorship of one kind or another. Despite claims that there is 'independence' in reporting, this is never the case. Whether it be that the researcher begins the process with pre-determined cognitive subconscious bias, or that the methodology is constrained, or that the cohort lacks sufficient diversity to appropriately capture nuances of each sub-cohort, or that someone somewhere does not wish for something to be reported. All information is skewed and biased - researchers are human. So too are the AI programmers human in designing AI products, thus bias is inevitable.
Your questions raise many issues including, how rich and 'accurate' is the information being collected, how well is the researcher skilled in analysis and critical thinking, and what information will ultimately be 'allowed' to be communicated. Research is multi-faceted and impacted by many factors. Therefore researchers are always constrained.
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