METHODOLOGIES

Books/Articles

Chilisa, B., & Phatshwane, K. (2022)  Qualitative Research within a Postcolonial Indigenous Paradigm . In: The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design, edited by Uwe. Flick, SAGE Publications, Limited, 2022.

Christopher C. Sonn, Stevens, G., and Duncan N. (2013) Decolonisation, Critical Methodologies and Why Stories Matter. In: Stevens G., Duncan N., Hook D. (eds) Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive. Studies in the Psychosocial. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Darder, A. (2019) Decolonizing Interpretive Research : A Subaltern Methodology for Social Change. Abingdon: Routledge

Denzin, Norman, Lincoln, Yvonna S., and Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (2008) Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. New York: SAGE.

Jennifer Lee (2009) Decolonising Māori narratives: Pūrākau as a method. MAI Review, 2009(2), pp.1-12.

Linda Tuwhai Smith. (2012) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous People. (2nd Edition) London: Zed Books. 

Renmans D, Sarkar N, Van Belle S, Affun-Adegbulu C, Marchal B, Mukumbang FC. Realist evaluation in times of decolonising global health. Int J Health Plann Mgmt. 2022; 37(S1): 37-44.

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni(2017) Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history. Journal of Public Administration, 52 (SI 1), p. 186 – 188.

Vivienne Bozalek (2011) Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonising methodologies in Southern contexts. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 14, pp.469-484

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Helen Kara’s blog has several posts/book reviews:

• Decolonising Methods: A Reading List
• Indigenous Research Methods: A Reading List
• Research Methods Books By Women Of Colour

Parise Carmichael-Murphy: It’s time to decolonise the doctorate.

Lorisia MacLeod (2021) More Than Personal Communication: Templates for Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 5(1). 

The dissolution of the universities – Workshop at the International Festival of Decoloniality 2026 – (summary and slides)

Re-storying the curriculum and student co-creation in decolonial narratives through comic art and the collective imagination. (Padlet)

Afro-pessimism, Afriphobia and the grammar of social death (website)

Pretorius et al (2025) Empowering international PhD students: Generative AI, Ubuntu, and the decolonisation of academic communication. The Internet and Higher Education, 67, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2025.101038 (open access)

Hosseini (preprint) Generative AI: a problematic illustration of the intersections of racialized gender, race, ethnicity

Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism. London and New York: Pluto Press