Violent contexts are not “normal” research settings; they involve abuses, power disparities, and collective histories of violence that researchers should be alert to. Being unreflexive to these risks can cause harm in the form of objectifying people and context, normalizing violence, or silencing voices. Political reflexivity can equip researchers to better identify, understand and mitigate these harms, and where possible, challenge structures that do the marginalizing. We articulate political reflexivity through feminist standpoint theory, which asks researchers to critically examine their positionality and privilege in relation to the geopolitics of the research setting, epistemic privilege of marginalized participants, and political implications of their work. Practicing political reflexivity can help researchers situate their work along a “decoloniality continuum,” which includes research complicit with the maintenance of violence, a hybridity approach that aims to understand and challenge the (colonial) underpinnings of violence by centering marginalized knowledge, and research that seeks reparation or liberation, meaning redress and radical equality for marginalized peoples, ideas and histories. We conclude with a call for researchers to identify methods and paths to strengthen our understanding of political reflexivity, and to support efforts to decolonize knowledge.

暴力环境不是“正常”的研究环境；它们涉及研究人员应该警惕的滥用、权力差距和集体暴力历史。对这些风险不加反省可能会以客观化人和背景、使暴力正常化或沉默声音的形式造成伤害。政治反思可以让研究人员更好地识别、理解和减轻这些危害，并在可能的情况下挑战边缘化的结构。我们通过女权主义立场理论阐明政治反思性，该理论要求研究人员批判性地审查他们与研究环境的地缘政治、边缘化参与者的认知特权以及他们工作的政治含义相关的地位和特权。实践政治反思可以帮助研究人员将他们的工作置于“非殖民连续体”中，其中包括与维持暴力的研究同谋，一种旨在通过以边缘化知识为中心来理解和挑战暴力的（殖民）基础的混合方法，以及研究寻求赔偿或解放，这意味着边缘化人民、思想和历史的补救和彻底平等。最后，我们呼吁研究人员确定方法和途径，以加强我们对政治反思性的理解，并支持知识非殖民化的努力。以及寻求赔偿或解放的研究，这意味着边缘化人民、思想和历史的补救和彻底平等。最后，我们呼吁研究人员确定方法和途径，以加强我们对政治反思性的理解，并支持知识非殖民化的努力。以及寻求赔偿或解放的研究，这意味着边缘化人民、思想和历史的补救和彻底平等。最后，我们呼吁研究人员确定方法和途径，以加强我们对政治反思性的理解，并支持知识非殖民化的努力。