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DECOLONIAL FEMINIST RESEARCH
In Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory and Mothers, Jeong-eun Rhee
embarks on a deeply personal inquiry that is demanded by her dead mother¡¯s haunting
rememory and pursues what has become her work/life question: What methodologies
are available to notice and study a reality that exceeds and defies modern scientific
ontology and intelligibility?
Rhee is a Korean migrant American educational qualitative researcher, who learns
anew how to notice, feel, research, and write her mother¡¯s rememory across time, geography, languages, and ways of knowing and being. She draws on Toni Morrison¡¯s
concept of ¡°rememory¡± and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha¡¯s ¡°fragmented-multi self.¡± Using
various genres such as poems, dialogues, fictions, and theories, Rhee documents a multilayered process of conceptualizing, researching, and writing her (m/others¡¯) transnational
rememory as a collective knowledge project of intergenerational decolonial feminists of
color. In doing so, the book addresses the following questions: How can researchers write
in the name and practice of research what can never be known or narrated with logic and
reason? What methodologies can be used to work through and with both personal and
collective losses, wounds, and connections that have become y/our questions?
Rhee shows how to feel connectivity and fragmentation as/of self not as binary
but as constitutive through rememory and invites readers to explore possibilities of
decolonial feminist research as an affective bridge to imagine, rememory, and
engender healing knowledge. Embodied onto-epistemologies of women of color
haunt and thus demand researchers to contest and cross the boundary of questions,
topics, methodologies, and academic disciplinary knowledge that are counted as
relevant, appropriate, and legitimate within a dominant western science regime.
This book is for qualitative researchers and feminism scholars who are pursuing
these kinds of boundary-crossing ¡°personal¡± inquiries.
Jeong-eun Rhee is Professor of Education, Long Island University, USA. She is
the co-editor of Promiscuous Feminist Methodologies in Education: Engaging Research
Beyond Gender (Routledge, 2014).
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