Doing and Unpacking De/Colonising Methodologies: Who is at Risk?

Abstract

Contemporary research processes might be identified as having neither a beginning nor an end. This article is written as an interruption in the ending of the author's doctoral processes. The project is to critically reflect and examine complexities involving who is at risk when methodology and theory argue for displacements that unpack taken-for-granted norms. These are unequal sociological binaries such as white/black, privileged/non-privileged, the researcher/the researched. By working within the epistemology of differences the author has been inspired by multiple methodologies involving stories, voices and metaphors. From theories of the critical social sciences, feminisms and post-structuralisms, knowledge is reconfigured from static, fixed disciplines towards dynamic fluidity and complexity.