Elizabeth Grigg

Biographic Data

ID5986812
NAMEElizabeth Grigg
GIVEN NAMESElizabeth
FAMILY NAMEGrigg
SIGNATUREGRIGG E
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University
ORCID0009-0000-7563-9026
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Maybe it’s a cultural thing or maybe it’s a coloniality thing’

    Open AccessMirna Carranza, Elizabeth Grigg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gender Studies2026

    Global understandings of gender-based violence remain dominated by liberal feminist frameworks that centre individualized rights and autonomy as the universal standard for liberation. Embedded in international development and humanitarian discourse, these frameworks circulate as neutral while setting the stage for Western rescue narratives that commodify trauma. For women across the distinct historical and geopolitical contexts of El Salvador, Gu…

  • Representations of Central American women and the colonial knowledge base of social work

    M Carranza, Elizabeth Grigg et al.ARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2026

    Colonial representations of Salvadorian, Guatemalan, Honduran and Nicaraguan women have long shaped global perceptions of the region, particularly in development, humanitarianism and social work. This article reflects on how these portrayals sustain archetypes of white womanhood embedded in foundational understandings of gender-based violence within social work. Drawing on a collaborative project involving Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras…

  • Trapped within the logic of modernity/coloniality

    Open AccessM Carranza, Giovanni Hernandez‐Carranza et al.ARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2023References: 10

    Background Academic research is the site where the production and dissemination of knowledge are embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies which are posited as universal and non‐Eurocentric knowledges are devalued, dismissed, and ignored. Objectives The goal was to explore the tensions that emerged between the Global North team and the Global South team, from the Global North's perspective. Methods This paper a collaborative autoethnography to trace…

  • Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality

    Open AccessM Carranza, Giovanni Hernandez‐Carranza et al.ARTICLEQualitative Social Work2021

    This article traces how coloniality traps research and researchers in the Global North into maintaining the rigidity of its politics and logics through the meaning process. As International Social Work continues to gain popularity, supporting the proliferation of research across borders, the theoretical underpinnings must be unpacked with the context of the collaboration and the cultures involved that give meaning to both. The crux of the article…