Decolonizing Methodologies
  
 

"Modernity as Spatial Projection"
     
  Towards A Decolonizing Methodology, 5 Initial Reflections:  
 
1. Who produces the research?
  
 
2. In whose interests is the research undertaken?
  
 
3. Who consumes the research?
  
 
4. What discursive formations make the research possible?
  
 
5. What economic interests enable the production and consumption of the research?
  
     
  These reflections, if taken seriously, lead us to a series of intersections where one can envision, by standing in the center, a research beyond the horizon of Modernity. These questions are there to help us navigate the apparent distortions of space-time, of reality and hyper-reality, of one's self in the world (politics) and one's self in relation to others (ethics).  
     
     
"To hold alternative histories is to hold alternative knowledges. Transforming our colonized views of our own history (as written by the West), however, requires us to revisit, site by site, our history under Western eyes. This in turn requires a theory or approach which helps us to engage with, understand and then act upon history."
  

"Imperialism cannot be struggled over only at the level of text and literature."

- Linda Tuhiwai Smith