Inviting Methodological Reworlding

Toward a Pluriversal Future

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ID3436705
AuthorsPearl Subban (0000-0002-2904-976X, Monash University), Urmee Chakma (0000-0002-5744-3588, La Trobe University)
Year2025
Publication date2025-09-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/15327086251377052
OpenAlexW4414296243
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited55

This conceptual paper, co-authored by two academics of color, confronts the enduring coloniality embedded in academic research methodologies. Written both as critique and as method, it refuses the constraints of Western epistemological traditions that privilege objectivity, linearity, and disembodied knowledge. Instead, it enacts a methodological rupture-centering lived experience, relationality, and epistemic sovereignty. The paper identifies multiple features of dominant methodology that operate as mechanisms of exclusion: the insistence on objectivity, the privileging of linear structure, the erasure of the researcher's body, and the universalization of Western epistemes. Through personal reflection, theoretical interrogation, and deliberate formal disruption, it invites readers into a pluriversal methodological future where multiple knowledge systems coexist without hierarchy. Practical possibilities include hybrid methodologies, co-theorizing with communities, relational ethics, language reclamation, and embodied ways of knowing. This is not an effort to reform the canon, but to rupture it-offering an invitation to imagine research as a site of resistance, care, and world-making

Anthropological Studies and Insights · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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