An autoethnographic reflection on the verb “decolonize” in sociological knowledge production
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Decolonization seems to have become a buzzword in multiple disciplines. However, the debate about what it means in relation to individual, collective, institutional and structural changes in academia remains under-discussed. Inspired by Tuck and Yang’s article “Decolonization is not a metaphor” (2012), the author –descendent of enslaved people in a former Portuguese colony– reflects on his own relationship with coloniality and what “to decolonize” means in his own scholarly trajectory. The goal of the essay is to reflect about a researcher’s own epistemological choices and power positions in an unequal and hierarchical academia.
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