Critical Research Methodologies

Ethics and Responsibilities
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44555-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 181, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

We live in a society that promotes the universal process of producing knowledge and truth making as fundamental social process. Such promotion of universality seems to subjugate others forms of knowing rendering them invisible, unintelligible, and ineligible and subsequently outside the community of knowing. This has material and symbolic consequences in terms of how research informs policy and subsequent victimization of those who live, and experience subjugation meted by Western truth making universalism. In the words of Foucault, this book is an insurrection of subterranean and clandestine knowledges in ways that provide not just an alternative process of knowledge production but affirms local knowledge as necessary in production of a just society. The book looks at research as a social justice and transformational process that should speak of people’s ways of live without necessarily streamlining them into numbers. The book is a critically reflexive project in terms of returning processes of knowledge production to the local space rather than imagining them as entirely centred in the structure. To imagine this book as reflexive exercise is to break boundaries of knowledges in ways that come to imagine how local performs global in very complicated and complex ways. This book is a resurrection of local knowledges steeped in creative and imaginative reflexive methodologies that come to reorient how we come to know what we know, the values and realities that mark what we know and the how of knowledge production. It centres subjugated voices and knowledges as fundamental in production of knowledge.

Contributors include: Katie Bannon, Elizabeth Charles, Khulood Agha Khan, Dionisio Nyaga, Fritz Pino, and Rose Ann Torres.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Torres, Rose Ann

Nyaga, Dionisio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Critical Research Methodologies

Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga

PART 1

Overview of Critical Research Methodologies

1 Critical Research Methodologies

Positionality, Ethics, Power

Dionisio Nyaga

2 Research Methodologies

History, Issues, Tensions

Rose Ann Torres

3 Torn Apart

Racialized Feelings and the Ethics of Doing Research with One’s Own Community

Fritz Pino

PART 2

Types of Critical Research Methodologies

4 Critical Ethnography

Discussions of Ethics and Principles

Rose Ann Torres

5 My Blackness is African

Looking at Kenyan Man through Black/Afrocentric Methodologies

Dionisio Nyaga

6 Storytelling

A Critical Narrative Approach

Rose Ann Torres

7 Research as an Inconsolable Mourning

Reimagining Pedestrian Research

Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga

PART 3

Application of Critical Research Methodologies

8 A Black Woman’s Perspective on Leadership and Risk-Taking

Exploring Research Methodologies That Can Transcend the Discourse of Mainstream Leadership Thought

Elizabeth Charles

9 Accessing Math Anxiety in Male Elementary Teachers as Learners and as Teachers

Khulood Agha Khan

10 Connecting the “Here and Now” with “What Could Be”

A Critical Analysis of Imagination as Method Engaging Queer Futurities

Katie Bannon

11 Black Afrocentric Methodologies

Beyond Colour-Coated Investigation

Dionisio Nyaga

Afterword

Using Critical Research Methodologies: The Significance of Reflexivity, Resistance, and Response

Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga/i>

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rose Ann Torres, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She has published books and many articles on Asian, African, Indigenous, and Women and Gender studies.

Dionisio Nyaga, Ph.D. (2019). University of Toronto, is Lecturer of Social Work at Ryerson University. He has published books, and many articles on African, Anti-Blackness, Gender, and Social Work.