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Amongst the long-needed intersection between education and decolonization, this book offers thatrare mix of theory intertwined with action.Dardermakes clear that to decolonize can happen in myriad ways, but not without intention, connection, and a stance of learning. Professor Leigh Patel, Associate Dean for Equity and Justice, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Decolonizing Interpretive Research audaciously brings to the fore subaltern voices that not only interrogate so-called objective lenses used to research ‘the other,’ but also offers emancipatory, humanistic, and organic ways in which the oppressed can documentand tell their stories. This is acutting-edge book that challenges western research orthodoxies while transcending disciplinary boundaries. Professor Pierre W. Orelus, Associate Professor and Department Chair, School of Education, Fairfield University Decolonizing Interpretive Research: A Subaltern Methodology for Social Change brings the literature of critical, anti-colonial, postcolonial studies to bear on the process and methods of research in a manner that enacts scholarly production as social action. Antonia Darder – as teacher – foregrounds the work of her students, dismantling the hierarchies of voice and power. Together they engage research as a communal process,workingas‘revolutionarypartners’pushingthroughandagainstestablished limits of how research is defined. The dissident voices of the students peel back layers of the colonial matrix with each chapter; their words flowing as affirmations of social change in the making. Professor Sandy Grande, Chair of the Education Department, Connecticut College DECOLONIZING INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH To what extent do Western political and economic interests distort perceptions and affect the Western production of research about the other? The concept of ‘colonializing epistemologies’ describes how knowledges outside the Western purview are often not only rendered invisible but either absorbed or destroyed. Decolonizing Interpretive Research outlines a form of oppositional study that undertakes a critical analysis of bodies of knowledge in any field that engages with issues related to the lives and survival of those deemed as other. It focuses on creating intellectual spaces that will facilitate new readings of the world and lead toward change, both in theory and practice. The book begins by conceptualizing the various aspects of the decolonizing interpretive research approach for the reader, and the following six chapters each focus on one of these issues, grounded in a specific decolonizing interpretive study. With a foreword by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, this book will allow readers to not only engage with the conceptual framework of this decolonizing methodology but will also give them access to examples of how the methodology has informed decolonizing interpretive studies in practice. AntoniaDarderholdstheLeaveyEndowedChairofEthicsandMoralLeadershipat LoyolaMarymountUniversityandisDistinguishedVisitingFacultyattheUniversity ofJohannesburg.Shehaspublishednumerousbooksandherworkfocusesonpolitical questionsandethicalconcernslinkedtoracism,classinequalities,languagerights,cri- tical pedagogy, cultural studies, and Latino education. More recently, her work has soughttocontendwithpedagogicalquestionsofthebodyandthepersistentimpactof colonialityoncommunityleadershipandempowerment. DECOLONIZING INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH A Subaltern Methodology for Social Change Edited by Antonia Darder Firstpublished2019 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2019selectionandeditorialmatter,AntoniaDarder;individualchapters,the contributors TherightofAntoniaDardertobeidentifiedastheauthoroftheeditorial material,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedin accordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct 1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Darder,Antonia,editor. Title:Decolonizinginterpretiveresearch:asubalternmethodologyforsocial change/editedbyAntoniaDarder. Description:Abingdon,Oxon;NewYork,NY:Routledge,2019.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2019004032|ISBN9781138486607(hardback)| ISBN9781138486614(pbk.)|ISBN9781351045070(ebook) Subjects:LCSH:Criticalpedagogy.|Knowledge,Theoryof.| Education--Research.|Socialchange. Classification:LCCLC196.D432019|DDC121--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019004032 ISBN:978-1-138-48660-7(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-48661-4(pbk) ISBN:978-1-351-04507-0(ebk) TypesetinBembo byTaylor&FrancisBooks CONTENTS List of contributors ix Foreword by Linda Tuhiwai Smith xi Preface xiv PARTI The conceptual foundation 1 1 Decolonizing interpretive research 3 Antonia Darder PARTII Decolonizing principles 37 2 Centering the subaltern voice 39 Kortney Hernandez 3 Naming the politics of coloniality 51 Emily Estioco Bautista 4 Demythologizing hegemonic beliefs 72 Kenzo Bergeron 5 Epistemological disruptions 83 Bibinaz Pirayesh viii Contents 6 Emancipatory re-readings 104 Terrelle Billy Sales Afterword: Justice against epistemicides: decolonizing interpretive research as reiteration of itinerant praxis 116 João Paraskeva Index 132 CONTRIBUTORS Emily Estioco Bautista holdsanEd.D.inEducationalLeadershipforSocialJustice fromLoyolaMarymountUniversity.Sheisaformerhighschoolsocialstudiesteacher and the current Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Transformation and Assistant Principal at YouthBuild Charter School of California. She is a founding member of the People’s Education Movement based in Los Angeles. As a scholar activist,herscholarshipisinformedbyherpersonalexperienceasastudentleaderand organizer, as she applies critical, decolonizing, and healing justice lenses to explore, engage, and create transformative possibilities in intergenerational organizing and youthmovements. Kenzo Bergeron holds an Ed.D. in Education Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University. Currently, he is the lead mathematics specialist at VillageSchool,California.Bergeron’sresearchexplorestheintersectionofpsychology and education as they work to negatively impact subaltern populations. He is the author of Challengingthe CultofSelf-Esteem inEducation: Education, Psychology, and the SubalternSelf. Antonia Darder, born in Puerto Rico, is a distinguished international critical educational scholar. She is a public intellectual, educator, writer, activist, and artist. Darder holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Lea- dership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Johannesburg; and is Professor Emerita of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is an American Educational Research Association Fellow and recipient of the AERA Scholars of Color Lifetime Contribution Award. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the field, including Culture and Power in the Classroom (20th anniversary edition), Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of

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