Rethinking Qualitative Research Methodologies and the Roles of Resistance for Critical Self-Determination

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Colonial beginnings worldwide, saw demands for Indigenous lands and resources, met with active resistance and trauma. This symposium investigates what we can learn from our past histories, towards more interdisciplinary, qualitative methodologies for learning from and being with people, today.
We represent scholars who have used qualitative methodologies in participatory and culturally responsive ways. For 15 years, this conceptual framework has served us and our participants well. However, as Fascism descends upon us, we seek reinforcements. Together with our intellectual kin, we seek to learn from today’s political trauma and attempt to weave a cloak of resistance towards critical self-determination.
AERA provides opportunities to learn with other researchers, to reform our foundations, and better contribute to the fabric of society.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chairs

• Mere Berryman, University of Waikato

• Suzanne SooHoo, Chapman University

Papers

• Anti-colonial Praxis Under Fascism: Experiments in Democratic Learning, Participatory Consciousness and Movement Work - Ndindi Kitonga, Angeles Workshop School

• Differences, not divisiveness: bridging the binaries of male/female and white/brown while exploring the phenomenon of becoming Muslim - Dina M. Eletreby, Chapman University

• Inquiry into the social construction of whiteness through my own veil of whiteness - Veronica E. Bloomfield, Porch Swing Productions

Session Organizer

• Mere Berryman, University of Waikato

Discussant

• Christine E. Sleeter, California State University - Monterey Bay