African students studying abroad and returning home to conduct research face several
challenges. The purpose of this article is to describe the dilemma of a Kenyan student …

This article discusses the value of affirming methodologies through two studies of African
diasporas that reveal how affirmation enhances autonomy, ownership, solidarity, and …

Current challenges faced by individuals, families and communities increasingly require
communities to seek amongst themselves for solutions to problems and support to overcome …

Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) research techniques can contribute to decolonising
methodologies by alerting participants to privilege and marginalisation through encounters …

Indigenous scholars have debated the impact that researchers and the act of researching
have on Native and Indigenous people and communities. Although literature on this subject …

The starting point for this chapter is the need for more open and honest debates around
possibilities for, and limitations of, researching with 'excluded'groups and what this means …

This article examines five interrelated methodological and ethical opportunities and
challenges embedded within qualitative research projects that seek to partner with …

In this chapter, the authors explore how the encounters and indigenous epistemologies
have informed actions and reactions in the everyday life of research and writing. They focus …

The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in collaborative ethnographic methods in
North America. Most recently, the Latin American Studies Association introduced a new …

This article emanates from an in-depth qualitative study that examined ideological beliefs
among Indigenous parents regarding school desegregation and school “choice” policies in …