Methodological Reworlding: Working through (De)Colonial Entanglements

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The session convenes four distinct yet deeply interconnected inquiries that challenge colonial logics embedded in educational research. While each paper emerges from a different context of epistemic fragmentation, refugee resettlement, funded international research grants, and racialized urban landscapes, they provide a collective perspective through shared commitments to decolonial ethics, global-local epistemic accountability, and the reimagining of knowledge-making beyond colonial and anthropocentric logics. Together, they make a powerful call to rethink how educational research relates to people, places, institutions, and nonhuman worlds. Ultimately, this session does not present a single alternative methodology, but shares the necessity of continuous methodological reworlding: a practice of rethinking and remaking research in relation to layered histories of ongoing violence, survival, and interdependence.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Methodologies

Chair

• Jeong-Eun Rhee, Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus

Papers

• Against the Tactical Lie of Coloniality: Personally-at-Stake Academic Dialogues as Decolonial Methodology - Jeong-Eun Rhee, Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus

• Writing about Migration: Methodological Dilemmas and Possibilities - Binaya Subedi, The Ohio State University

• Translation as Method: Decolonizing Inquiry in Transnational US Funded Research - Sharon S. Subreenduth, Georgia Southern University

• Beyond Ruin Porn: Urban Visual Culture and Otherwise Entanglements - Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University

Session Organizer

• Jeong-Eun Rhee, Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus

Discussant

• Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University