Whose Knowledge Counts? Rewriting The Literature Review To Include Marginalised Voices

Influenced by critical disability studies, feminist thought and participatory and emancipatory approaches to research, this paper explores new ways of thinking about the ethics of developing a literature review during doctoral study. It questions what kind of knowledge the literature review values, whose lens is upheld and more importantly whose is ignored. It is argued that reimagining the literature review as a 'community of knowledge' and drawing on a variety of sources and voices, not only contributes to the overall transparency and integrity of the thesis, but enables the literature review to become a space in which dominant discourses can be challenged and unequal relations of power disrupted.