Invited Symposium III: Decolonizing Research: Generating Community-Grounded Inquiry

Among community-based scholars, efforts are underway to incorporate culturally based knowledges and practices into the research enterprise. Culturally based knowledges provide the logic and internal validity by which communities live and thrive. Decolonizing research honors communities’ historical, social and political contexts while simultaneously privileging community voice and unearthing community knowledges. In doing so, decolonizing research attenuates the forces that have historically marginalized communities’ epistemologies and practices. This session provides examples of decolonizing research that provokes revolutionary thinking about the roots and roles that culture and community voice can play in the development of effective interventions.