Methodological Commitments and Refusals: Engaging Slow Methodology With Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous Communities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session furthers methodological discourse among researchers committed to the well-being and thriving of Black, Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous futures. Stemming from work in a collective, we address epistemological and ontological approaches in education research with Black, Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous communities, from Turtle Island and beyond. This panel seeks to address questions of how we engage in research in ways that do not further reproduce harms of extractive research which marginalized communities have been subjected to. Each paper addresses methodological orientations of “slow methods” (Quashie, 2022) to honor the “limits of the human body in academia” and lean towards the ethics of care in education research. Each paper shares methodological commitments and refusals in their studies that align with slow methods.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Licho Lopez Lopez, University of Melbourne

Papers

• The Ethic of Slow Methods and Refusals: Leaning Into Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous Relationalities - Jennifer Brant, University of Toronto - OISE; Kayla Webber, University of Toronto

• Engaging Slow Methods in Ethnographic Research That Centers Young Black Girls' Epistemologies: Affordances and Tensions - Natacha Jones, University of Texas at Austin

• Listening for Place: Black and Indigenous Youth in Relation to Tkaronto - Sefanit Habtom, University of Washington

• Black Students and Access to Education: Leaning in to Slow Methods for Counterstories - Nadia Qureshi, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Licho Lopez Lopez, University of Melbourne