“Inviting Methodological Reworlding”: Toward a Pluriversal Future

Abstract

This conceptual paper, co-authored by two academics of color, confronts the enduring coloniality embedded in academic research methodologies. Written both as critique and as method, it refuses the constraints of Western epistemological traditions that privilege objectivity, linearity, and disembodied knowledge. Instead, it enacts a methodological rupture—centering lived experience, relationality, and epistemic sovereignty. The paper identifies multiple features of dominant methodology that operate as mechanisms of exclusion: the insistence on objectivity, the privileging of linear structure, the erasure of the researcher’s body, and the universalization of Western epistemes. Through personal reflection, theoretical interrogation, and deliberate formal disruption, it invites readers into a pluriversal methodological future where multiple knowledge systems coexist without hierarchy. Practical possibilities include hybrid methodologies, co-theorizing with communities, relational ethics, language reclamation, and embodied ways of knowing. This is not an effort to reform the canon, but to rupture it—offering an invitation to imagine research as a site of resistance, care, and world-making.

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