Liming as Inquiry: A Culturally Affirming Methodology Centered in Caribbean Knowledges

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Voices of the Diaspora: Exploring Educational Histories, Perspectives, and Practices (Table 12)

Abstract

This conceptual paper presents and explores the culturally affirming practice of liming as a qualitative methodology. Emerging from the author’s complex navigation of traditional qualitative research frameworks that were discordant to their own cultural knowledges, liming is presented as a methodology of surrender (Dillard, 2006) – creating space for participants to reflect on the communal nature of their experiences and for the researcher to (re)vision the audience for their work. This communal and reparative experience shifts the ways in which the researcher engages with research design, data collection, and analysis. While this paper centers Caribbean contexts and participants, there are lessons that can be applied to research conducted by, for, and with those from marginalized or historically underrepresented communities.

Author

• Dyanis Conrad, Randolph-Macon College