Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Critical Personal Narratives

by Kagendo Mutua (editor), Beth Blue Swadener (Editor)

Drawing from their experiences in cross-cultural research, scholars from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss their attempts to reclaim and reposition the representation of indigenous cultures in their work. They raise critical questions that resist the centrality of the English language as a medium of research and of the Western academy as the locus for knowledge production, reframe cross-cultural research agendas to include ways of knowing that have been excluded all too often, and offer creative ways of using cross-cultural collaboration.

297 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Brian]

Research justice nonsense. Good scholarship is good scholarship. In contrast, research justice acts upon a belief that science, reason, empiricism, objectivity, universality, and subjectivity have been overvalued as ways of obtaining knowledge while emotion, experience, traditional narratives and customs, and spiritual beliefs have been undervalued.