Anti-colonial research praxis
Methods for knowledge justice
Edited by Caroline Lenette
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- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 224
- Price: £90.00
- Published Date: April 2025
Description
How can anti-colonial research methodologies be transformative and achieve knowledge justice? This book brings together an eclectic group of leading scholars from around the world to share methodological knowledge grounded in First Nations and majority-world expertise and wisdom. The authors challenge western-centric and colonial approaches to knowledge production and redefine the possibilities of what we can achieve through social research.
First Nations and majority-world perspectives are contextual and unique. They share a common aim of disrupting established beliefs on research methodologies and the unquestioned norms that dictate whose knowledge the academy values. The ten chapters in this edited collection describe how the authors draw on Indigenous knowledge systems, feminist frameworks, and creative methodologies as anti-colonial research praxis. The examples span several disciplines such as development studies, geography, education, sexual and reproductive health, humanitarian studies, and social work. Authors use a reflexive approach to discuss specific factors that shape how they engage in research ethically, to lead readers through a reflection on their own practices and values. The book reimagines social research using an anti-colonial lens and concludes with a collaboratively developed and co-written set of provocations for anti-colonial research praxis that situate this important work in the context of ongoing colonial violence and institutional constraints.
This book is an essential guide for researchers and scholars within and beyond the academy on how anti-colonial research praxis can produce meaningful outcomes, especially in violent and troubled times.
Cover art courtesy of Tawny Chatmon
Contents
Introduction: Anti-colonial research praxis and knowledge justice in the academy - Caroline Lenette
Part I: Indigenous knowledge systems
1 Reflecting on the use of Chilisa's Indigenous knowledge postcolonial paradigm as a decolonial praxis - Lieketseng Ned, Elelwani Ramugondo and Gubela Mji
2 Respecting Country as a living Methodology: The Kookaburra Song - Crystal Arnold
3 Decolonising social work research: Subverting the white, western paradigm through praxis - Autumn Asher BlackDeer
4 Kaupapa Maori: Asserting Maori humanity within a university - Adreanne Ormond
Part II: Feminist frameworks
5 Rethinking the (im)possibility of participation in humanitarian research: Co-constructing knowledge through feminist methodologies - Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete and Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo
6 The excess of qualitative interviews, and the feminist, anti-colonial reimaginings of research methods - Charisma Ratnam, Paula Satizábal and Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita
7 Exploring decolonial feminist approaches through arts-based research on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Philippines - Marie Aubrey Villaceran
Part III: Creative methodologies
8 Theatre of the Privileged as a tool for anti-racist education and research - Laila Kadiwal and Mai Abu Moghli
9 The story circle interview method: The power of story as data - Judy Pryor-Ramirez
10 Reflecting on a Teen Advisory Group in participatory research in South Africa - Aviwe Baartman, Sesona Baskiti, Chelsea Coakley, Sibulele Dyobiso, Yamkela Hlekani, Chumisa Jack, Luyolo Jack, Sinesipho Kwetha, Sandisiwe Mafuya, Tebogo Malahlela, Hlokoma Mangqalaza, Yolanda Mapukane, Mpho Mendu, Siphokuhle Ponoyi, Yusra Price, Mildred Thabeng and Lisanda Zanempi.
Conclusion: Nine provocations for anti-colonial research praxis - Caroline Lenette, Kaira Alburo-Cañete, Crystal Arnold, Lieketseng Ned, Adreanne Ormond, Yusra Price, Judy Pryor-Ramirez, Elelwani Ramugondo, Charishma Ratnam, Mildred Thabeng and Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo
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Editor
Caroline Lenette is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Big Anxiety Research Centre at the University of New South Wales
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