Metodologias da Urgência: Reclaiming Time, Voice, and Responsibility in Research

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 3:45 pm - Gold 4
  In Roundtable Session: Method as Presence: Urgency, Belonging, and Relational Praxis in Qualitative Research

Abstract

In times of epistemic erasure, institutional delay, and extractive research logics, how might educational research respond with the urgency justice demands? This theoretical paper proposes metodologias da urgência (methodologies of urgency) as a conceptual framework clustering research approaches forged in struggle, survival, and refusal. Inspired by literatura da urgência, the paper outlines five tenets of this framework: epistemic insurgence, situated reflexivity, temporal disobedience, method as voice, and ethic of responsibility. Methodologies such as testimonio, critical autoethnography, counter-narratives, refusal, and epistolary writing exemplify this approach. Rejecting detachment and delay, metodologias da urgência reposition research as an act of presence and care, relational, reparative, and ethically unfinished, offering a path toward humanizing educational research that refuses to remain silent.

Author

• Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld, University of Minnesota