Affirming Methodologies

This book details ways of moving towards 'affirming methodologies' and showing the value particular contribution that indigenous methods - in this case, from the Caribbean - bring to education, sociology, anthropology and other social science fields.

Introduction: Defining Affirming Methodologies and Articulating a Caribbean Space; PART I: Culturally Affirming Methodologies for Caribbean Research 1.Researcher Positioning in the Caribbean Research Space 2. Liming Methodology as a Culturally Affirming Approach to Research in Caribbean Contexts 3. Mash-Up as Method: Building Community-Based Approaches to Caribbean Feminist Research; PART II: Affirming Caribbean Pedagogies in Academia 4. Shifting from Hegemonic Teaching and Practices to Liberating and Affirmative Caribbean Pedagogies 5. Affirming an Endonormative Approach in Language Research Design in the Caribbean 6. Comparative Collaboration: Possibilities and Positionalities within Culturally Affirming Methodologies 7. Popular Education as an Emancipatory Approach to Knowledge Construction: Experiences from Cuba; PART III: Affirming Indigenous Practices 8. Groundings and Rastafari: Re-territorialising Caribbean Indigenous Knowledges 9. Affirming Methodologies in Peace and Conflict Studies 10. Cultural Affirmation through Meaning Reconstruction of Rituals and Practices within the Caribbean Conclusion