This session on ‘Decolonising research’ examines how colonial ideologies might influence research conducted in humanitarian and development settings, including assumptions made about communities, decision-making about research, how we privilege certain knowledge over others, and how we analyse and present research. It also explores strategies for decolonising throughout the research process, grounding these in feminist reflexivity.
Featured Resources
Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University
2025 |
Migration studies have increasingly embraced a diverse array of innovative and critical qualitative methods to gain deeper, more nuanced insights into the lived experiences of migrants and refugees. Researchers are moving beyond traditional approaches to explore the complex social, spatial, and temporal dynamics of migration, as well as how…
Carolina Alonso Berajano
2024 |
This lecture on decolonizing ethnography methods is part of the NSF-funded International Cultural Anthropology Methods (CAMP) Program, a free-to-all public anthropology methods curriculum (https://methods4all.org/camp-international/). See this link for a complete list of the curriculum and suggested readings to accompany each lecture.
Maria Giannacopoulos, Border Criminologies
2024 | Australia
Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, ‘Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law’, in Performance, Resistance and Refugees, Taylor & Francis, pp. 155 – 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142782…
Deondre Smiles, Max Liboiron
2021 | Canada
Drs. Deondre & Max’s book club on Indigenous methodologies We’ve been engaging in a reading experiment called #Collabrary (Collaborative Library) where we aim to read research texts with generosity, humility, and accountability. Mostly we’ve been posting our reading on Twitter, but now we’ll be talking to one another…
Featured Resources
Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University
2025 |
Migration studies have increasingly embraced a diverse array of innovative and critical qualitative methods to gain deeper, more nuanced insights into the lived experiences of migrants and refugees. Researchers are moving beyond traditional approaches to explore the complex social, spatial, and temporal dynamics of migration, as well as how…
Carolina Alonso Berajano
2024 |
This lecture on decolonizing ethnography methods is part of the NSF-funded International Cultural Anthropology Methods (CAMP) Program, a free-to-all public anthropology methods curriculum (https://methods4all.org/camp-international/). See this link for a complete list of the curriculum and suggested readings to accompany each lecture.
Maria Giannacopoulos, Border Criminologies
2024 | Australia
Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, ‘Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law’, in Performance, Resistance and Refugees, Taylor & Francis, pp. 155 – 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142782…
Deondre Smiles, Max Liboiron
2021 | Canada
Drs. Deondre & Max’s book club on Indigenous methodologies We’ve been engaging in a reading experiment called #Collabrary (Collaborative Library) where we aim to read research texts with generosity, humility, and accountability. Mostly we’ve been posting our reading on Twitter, but now we’ll be talking to one another…
