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THEMATIC

CFP 45 - Thematic: Doing Research in Global/Transnational Contexts with Critical Decolonial Lenses: Tools and Epistemologies
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Sponsor: Global

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Discussant: Angela Vergara, University of Central Florida

Description: 

This session explores the methodological and epistemological challenges of conducting research in global and transnational contexts through critical decolonial lenses. Presenters will engage with innovative tools and approaches that disrupt dominant knowledge hierarchies, foreground community voices, and center relationality, reciprocity, and justice in the research process. By highlighting diverse case studies and reflexive practices, the session aims to foster dialogue on decolonizing methodologies, ethical collaboration across borders, and reimagining knowledge production beyond Eurocentric frameworks.

Papers:

“Am I (Theoretically Speaking) the Drama? A Reflexive Examination of Anti-Blackness Research and Its Potential to Reify Coloniality and Hegemony,” Bryan L. Greene, Morris College

“Community Ethnography in Central America’s Gang Territories,” Anjuli Fahlberg, Tufts University

“Denaturalizing Borders through ‘Community-Engaged Scholarship’: Maya-Mam Articulations of Indigenous Resistance across the Guatemala–Mexico Border,” Jeffrey A. Gardner, Sam Houston State University

“Studying Elite but Racialized Immigrants in the United States: How Transnational and Decolonial Methodologies Unpack the Paradox of Privilege and Precarity,” Rianka Roy, Wake Forest University

“‘Play This Song Next!’: Becoming More Than an Objective Interviewer as a Researcher of Sexual Violence,” Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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