Decolonizing Methodology

Abstract

We approach this chapter with a number of communities in mind. Disabled people, people of color and gay, transsexual and queer people share a common history of being colonized by researchers who “have probed, recollected, appropriated and ultimately exploited their lives in insensitive and offensive ways” (Llorens, 2008. p. 3). Research is an imperialist, disablist and heteronormative peculiarity of modernist knowledge production. In 1999, Tuhiwai Smith issued a call for the decolonizing of methodologies and in this chapter we take up that call. Tuhiwai Smith demands us to think again about how research can be enacted - as a liberatory rather than oppressive venture. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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