Decolonizing Methodologies

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To the colonized, the term research is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory for many of the worlds colonized peoples. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods in an attempt to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its second edition, this book critically examines the bases of Western research, while also suggesting literature which validates ones frustrations in dealing with western methodologies, all of which position the indigenous as Other. The author explores the intersections of imperialism and research – specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as regimes of truth. Concepts such as discovery and claiming are discussed, explicitly in terms of how the west has consistently incorporated the indigenous world within its own web.