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To examine how lingering colonial legacies shape social science fieldwork and propose reflexive practices that advance epistemic accountability toward researched communities.

September 17, 2026International Journal of Social Research MethodologyOpen Access

Whose field? Decolonizing social science research Praxis

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SBSylvia Bawa CAConstance A. Akurugu FSFrancis N. Sanyare

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Reflexive methodological analysis reveals persistent extractive logics during social science fieldwork within indigenous communities, highlighting the necessity of collaborative knowledge...

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To examine how lingering colonial legacies shape social science fieldwork and propose reflexive practices that advance epistemic accountability toward researched communities.
Reflexive qualitative analysis drawing directly from the authors' lived experiences as insider researchers working within their own communities.
Application of fieldwork vignettes as an analytical mechanism to evaluate relational power dynamics, epistemic alienation, and conventional research frameworks.
Conventional fieldwork methods reproduce extractive colonial logics that frame communities strictly as passive objects of investigation rather than active partners in discovery.
Standard academic approaches foster profound epistemic alienation for insider researchers attempting to balance communal ties against institutional expectations.
Epistemic accountability requires adopting collaborative knowledge co-production, open disclosure, and deep alignment with local ontologies to safeguard Indigenous social integrity.

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Bawa et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb74e5f706d05830e64e0 https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2026.2716883

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September 17, 2026International Journal of Social Research MethodologyOpen Access

Whose field? Decolonizing social science research Praxis

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Authors

SBSylvia Bawa CAConstance A. Akurugu FSFrancis N. Sanyare

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Overview

Reflexive methodological analysis reveals persistent extractive logics during social science fieldwork within indigenous communities, highlighting the necessity of collaborative knowledge...

Key Points

To examine how lingering colonial legacies shape social science fieldwork and propose reflexive practices that advance epistemic accountability toward researched communities.
Reflexive qualitative analysis drawing directly from the authors' lived experiences as insider researchers working within their own communities.
Application of fieldwork vignettes as an analytical mechanism to evaluate relational power dynamics, epistemic alienation, and conventional research frameworks.
Conventional fieldwork methods reproduce extractive colonial logics that frame communities strictly as passive objects of investigation rather than active partners in discovery.
Standard academic approaches foster profound epistemic alienation for insider researchers attempting to balance communal ties against institutional expectations.
Epistemic accountability requires adopting collaborative knowledge co-production, open disclosure, and deep alignment with local ontologies to safeguard Indigenous social integrity.

Cite This Study

Bawa et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb74e5f706d05830e64e0 https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2026.2716883

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