400030 SE Contemporary decolonial methodologies and methods (2022S)

This course has two objectives in mind. The first objective is to situate contemporary global discussions on decolonial methodologies and methods and their epistemological and ontological theoretical implications. The second objective is to familiarise doctoral students with the research praxis of decolonial methodologies and methods. This doctoral course will answer the following questions: What and who makes research decolonial? What are the main concerns of doing decolonial research today? Understanding decolonial methodologies as those influenced by Indigenous methodologies, Black participatory research and Latin American popular education epistemologies, this course will focus on pluralising epistemological viewpoints while also focusing on specific methodological praxis. The methods that will be explored for this course include social cartography methods, including decolonial methods such as body-territory as well oral history. The intersections between methods and methodologies will be emphasised.