Decolonial Feminist Research

<p><strong>Honourable Mention ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award</strong></p><p><strong>Honorable Mention AERA </strong><strong>Qualitative SIG for 2023 Outstanding Book Award Category</strong> </p><p>In<em> Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting Rememory and Mothers</em><em> </em>Jeong-eun Rhee embarks on<i> </i>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? </p><p>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 multi-layered 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? </p><p>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. </p>