Decolonizing research methods: A call for anti-racist research practices.
By Alessandra Cuzzolino Modern Western academia, including the humanities and social sciences, is based on the reproduction of colonial systems of knowledge. What counts as knowledge, who is authorised to produce it, and which voices are legitimised within the academic discourse, have historically been shaped by Eurocentric views over ontology – the philosophical study of being – and epistemology – the philosophical study of knowledge. These European perspectives aim to place Western thought...