Anti-colonial research praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526177005 ISBN 13: 9781526177001

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2025

Synopsis

How can anti-colonial research methodologies be transformative and achieve knowledge justice? This book brings together leading scholars from around the world to share methodological knowledge grounded in First Nations and majority-world expertise and wisdom. The authors challenge western-centric and colonial approaches to knowledge production, redefining the possibilities of what we can achieve through social research.

The First Nations and majority-world perspectives highlighted here share a common aim of disrupting established beliefs about research methodologies and unquestioned norms in the academy. Authors in this edited collection describe how they draw on Indigenous knowledge systems, feminist frameworks and creative methodologies as forms of anti-colonial research praxis. Spanning development studies, geography, education, sexual and reproductive health, humanitarian studies and social work, the authors reflexively discuss the specific factors shaping how they engage in research ethically. The book reimagines social research through an anti-colonial lens, concluding with a set of provocations for anti-colonial research praxis that situate this important work in the context of ongoing colonial violence and institutional constraints.

This book is an essential guide for researchers and scholars within and beyond the academy on how anti-colonial research praxis can produce meaningful outcomes, especially in violent and troubled times.
Cover art courtesy of Tawny Chatmon

About this title

About the Author

Caroline Lenette is Professor of Anti-Colonial Research and Deputy Director of the Big Anxiety Research Centre at the University of New South Wales -- .

From the Back Cover

This book is a profound and generous offering to the fields of research and knowledge justice ... an essential guide for reimagining research as a site of justice, accountability, and solidarity.
Mónica G Moreno Figueroa, Professor, University of Cambridge

Combining works that centre Indigenous, feminist praxis, and creative approaches to the research paradigm, the book offers a framework for carrying out anti/decolonised and empowering research praxis.
Juan Tauri, Professor, University of Melbourne

This transformational book not only disrupts colonial hierarchies, but also embodies and enacts different ways of knowing and doing.
Christina Clark-Kazak, Professor, University of Ottawa

How can anti-colonial research methodologies be transformative and achieve knowledge justice? This book brings together leading scholars from around the world to share methodological knowledge grounded in First Nations and majority-world expertise and wisdom. The authors challenge western-centric and colonial approaches to knowledge production, redefining the possibilities of what we can achieve through social research.

The First Nations and majority-world perspectives highlighted here share a common aim of disrupting established beliefs about research methodologies and unquestioned norms in the academy. Authors in this edited collection describe how they draw on Indigenous knowledge systems, feminist frameworks and creative methodologies as forms of anti-colonial research praxis. Spanning development studies, geography, education, sexual and reproductive health, humanitarian studies and social work, the authors reflexively discuss the specific factors shaping how they engage in research ethically. The book reimagines social research through an anti-colonial lens, concluding with a set of provocations for anti-colonial research praxis that situate this important work in the context of ongoing colonial violence and institutional constraints.

This book is an essential guide for researchers and scholars within and beyond the academy on how anti-colonial research praxis can produce meaningful outcomes, especially in violent and troubled times.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526177005
• ISBN 13: 9781526177001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Caroline Lenette