Re/membering Beyond the Settler Colonial Academy: Methods Rooted in and for Ancestral Knowledges

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 7:45 am - Gold 3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The U.S. Academy is entrenched in settler colonial patterns of institutional violence, limiting the possibilities of a more racially just United States (Stein, 2022). These existing settler colonial racial logics shape the knowledge being produced and the knowledges being ignored (Maldonado-Torres, 2019; Mignolo, 2005, 2009; Wynter, 2003). Thus, scholarship and research practices in the U.S. Academy are socially and culturally situated in settler colonial racial logics (Patel, 2015). To move beyond these settler colonial logics, three emerging methodologies engage ancestral and communal knowledge to honor the lived realities of historically oppressed communities by amplifying and centering relationality, storytelling, and the co-creation of knowledge as acts of epistemic disobedience.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Eileen M. Galvez, Colorado State University

Papers

• Re/membering our Desires in Research: Methods for writing and researching the future - Cydney Y. Caradonna, University of Utah

• Methods of Central American Epistemic Sovereignty - Eileen M. Galvez, Colorado State University

• Expanding Affirming Methodologies as a Diasporic-Affirming Methodology in the U.S. Academy - Luz Nereida Burgos-Lopez, University of Connecticut

Session Organizer

• Cydney Y. Caradonna, University of Utah

Discussant

• Omi Salas-SantaCruz, University of Utah