Research and Reknowledge Dissemination

This area is aimed at addressing the common but harmful binary in academic research between the researcher and the perceived subject/object of their research. The topic explores storytelling as a narrativization process that moves away from harmful methods of research. Aligned with our collective’s decolonial goal, storytelling reaches towards relationality and connectivity in order to redefine what is deemed legitimate knowledge and (re)imagine more expansive and inclusive knowledge dissemination apparatuses that extend beyond the canonical boundaries of the academy.

The central question that we consider here is: How can research and its dissemination be (re)imagined to center stories and incorporate historically delegitimized identities and perspectives?

Rest-In-Body

Unifier invites us to rest, reconnect, and remember as we reflect about knowledge.

Knowledge, research, dissemination

  • What do these words feel like? Where do you feel them? What other words come up?

  • You may what words come up as you breathe into your heartspace and feel the resonance of the words through your body.

  • Whatever comes up, know that your body holds you so that you do not have to hold on.

Decolonial connections to consider while journaling

Reflection

Liv invites us to reflect on how our life experiences and identities are connected to research and knowledge through engaging in journaling, critical self-reflection, and dialogue.

Members of the collective share their reflections on the journal prompt.

Ongoing reflection prompts

Utitofon invites us to regroup and continue reflecting beyond these workshops.

  • What are your personal stories with decoloniality, coloniality, knowledge, research, teaching, pedagogy, and administration?

    • When did you first hear these terms?

    • When did you start feeling these terms?

    • How did they feel?

    • How do they resonate through your body today?

  • What about terms like practice, unlearning, de-centering, and dissemination?

    • Do these words make you feel restless, activated, triggered, calmed, relaxed, curious, or concerned?

    • Can you breathe into the feeling and rest with it?

  • Now that you have felt into these words and written a self-narrative, think of someone close to you in your life.

    • How have they any of these words influenced or affected them?

    • What is their experience, in your words, of knowledge, coloniality, research, pedagogy, learning, and administration?

  • Let us go a little further. How do these terms affect your community?

  • Let us go even further. How have any of these terms affected the soil, water, animals (domestic or wild), air, trees, and land?

  • What are the connections or disconnections you are seeing between yourself and those you are related to or have written about?

  • Make a drawing or painting of either a spiral or concentric circles. Where would you place the stories you have written in relation to yourself?

  • We are a continuum of our relations. What does that feel like? Can you repeat that to yourself? “We are a continuum of our own relations”. What does that sound like to you?

  • You can return to these questions and generate new words for yourself. You can share these prompts with friends, family, colleagues, and other relations in your circle. Have fun with them — this work is always one of Joy!

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