34.082 - Decolonizing Interpretive Research: A Subaltern Methodology for Social Change

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In Decolonizing Methodologies, Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012) asserts, “The intellectual project of decolonizing has to set out ways to proceed through a colonizing world. It needs a radical compassion that reaches out, that seeks collaboration, and that is open to possibilities that can only be imagined as other things fall into place. Decolonizing Methodologies…provokes revolutionary thinking about the roles that knowledge, knowledge production, knowledge hierarchies and knowledge institutions play in decolonization and social transformation” (xii) . With this decolonizing ethos in mind, this symposium engages Darder’s theory of decolonizing interpretive research as a viable method of emancipatory knowledge production, through a systematic presentation of its five major principles by subaltern researchers whose work is grounded in this methodological approach.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University

Papers

• Centering the Subaltern Voice - Kortney Hernandez, California State University - Los Angeles

• Demythologizing Hegemonic Beliefs - Kenzo Emile Bergeron, Loyola Marymount University

• Naming the Politics of Coloniality - Emily Bautista, YouthBuild Charter School of California (YCSC)

• Epistemological Disruptions - Bibinaz Pirayesh, Loyola Marymount University

• Emancipatory Rereadings - Terrelle B Sales, Vanguard University of Southern California

Discussant

• Joao Menelau Paraskeva, University of Massachusetts