 | Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Praxis Subjects: Communication Studies; Health and Social Care; Research Methods ; Communication Research Methods; Social Work and Social Policy; Qualitative Methods ; Social Justice; Ethnography and Autoethnography; In this literary, co-constructed narrative, two Brazilian scholars explore the spaces "in-between"--between their own biographies, one raised privileged, the other poor; between the experience of being raised in Brazil and finding acceptance in United States universities; between their lives in the academic establishment and their studies of poverty in Latin America; between the constraints of apolitical scholarship and the need to promote social justice; between contrasting styles of researching, theorizing, and writing. Their dialogue seeks to decolonize the world of American scholarship and promote the use of research toward inclusive social justice. |
