Affirming Methodologies: Research and Education in the Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9781032053080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Camille Nakhid; Margaret Nakhid-Chatoor; Anabel Fernandez Santana

Opis

This book details ways of moving towards 'affirming methodologies' and showing the value particular contribution that indigenous methods - in this case, from the Caribbean - bring to education, sociology, anthropology and other social science fields.

Recenzje

Affirming Methodologies is an innovative contribution to the theoretical landscape of the academy. As an approach, Affirming Methodologies centres often unheard Caribbean voices to epistemologically and ontologically position what it means to be Caribbean. There is, in this methodology, a subtle shift to claims of uniqueness, at once situated with decolonisation whilst simultaneously seeking the theoretical elevation of Caribbean social histories, lived lives, and practices that work to acknowledge the complexities inherent in such contexts. The text will benefit existing and emerging Caribbean scholars and non-Caribbean who need to be exposed to such knowledges.

Professor Tracey Bunda, Ngugi/Wakka Wakka, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland, Australia

This book, Affirming Methodologies: Research and Education in the Caribbean, is long overdue and sorely needed for so many reasons and on so many levels. First and foremost, however, is that the importance of capturing cultural perspectives in narratives, research, and best practices cannot be overstated. When research is absent of cultural perspectives, it is like an empty vessel. Cultural context is therefore essential to research and, when this is missing, the purpose, clarity of meaning, or sense of direction seem to be unclear or lost, like a missing piece of a puzzle. In research, it is the storyteller who shapes the imagination and belief of those who read and listen. Kudos to these editors for making the case for research and education from, and inclusive of, a Caribbean cultural perspective.

Kassie Freeman, President and CEO, African Diaspora Consortium (ADC)

This collection provides an in-depth overview and discussion on Affirming Methodological practices of, in and from the Caribbean space. The various chapters illustrate the strength, power and uniqueness of local and indigenous knowledges, within a context where historically louder global North discourses and practices have often dominated and disregarded local voices and ways of knowing. The book takes on these ontological distinctions from within the Caribbean research context and asks important questions about how and what can we know by building from Caribbean positionality. What does it mean to be a Caribbean researcher or the researched? What are the unique traditions, values, and respectabilities of the Caribbean missing from academia and research? How is an affirming methodology distinct to a decolonial one? And much more. This book will be of great value to researchers everywhere.

Dr Dylan Kerrigan, School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK

Spis treści

Introduction: Defining Affirming Methodologies and Articulating a Caribbean Space;  PART I: Culturally Affirming Methodologies for Caribbean Research  1.Researcher Positioning in the Caribbean Research Space  2. Liming Methodology as a Culturally Affirming Approach to Research in Caribbean Contexts  3. Mash-Up as Method: Building Community-Based Approaches to Caribbean Feminist Research;  PART II: Affirming Caribbean Pedagogies in Academia  4. Shifting from Hegemonic Teaching and Practices to Liberating and Affirmative Caribbean Pedagogies  5. Affirming an Endonormative Approach in Language Research Design in the Caribbean  6. Comparative Collaboration: Possibilities and Positionalities within Culturally Affirming Methodologies  7. Popular Education as an Emancipatory Approach to Knowledge Construction: Experiences from Cuba;  PART III: Affirming Indigenous Practices  8. Groundings and Rastafari: Re-territorialising Caribbean Indigenous Knowledges  9. Affirming Methodologies in Peace and Conflict Studies  10. Cultural Affirmation through Meaning Reconstruction of Rituals and Practices within the Caribbean  Conclusion