Decolonizing Qualitative Approaches for and by the Caribbean - 9781641137317

Decolonizing Qualitative Approaches for and by the CaribbeanAuthor(s): Saran Stewart\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641137317, 978-1641137317\nSynopsis\nAs academics in postcolonial Caribbean countries, we have been trained to believe that research should be objective: a measurable benefit to the public good and quantifiable in nature so as to generalize findings to develop knowledge societies for economic growth. What happens, however when the very word 'research' connotes a derogatory term or semblance of distrust? Smith [tel] speaks towards the distrustful nature of the term as a legacy of European imperialism and colonialism. Against this backdrop, how do Caribbean researchers leverage recognized and valued (indigenous) methods of knowing and understanding for and by the Caribbean populace? How do we learn from indigenous research methods such as Kaupapa Maori (Smith, 1999) and develop an und.