Discourses of the North Atlantic

What is it about?

This articles examines the specific mandates of formalization and interpretation that define North Atlantic epistemologies. Considering the coloniality of power that shaped some nation states as producers of valid knowledge. It makes two arguments: one for epistemologies that provide social routes to knowledge and for the need to robustly de-center research paradigms originating in the North Atlantic.

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Why is it important?

The tools of social research arrive in the 21st century with particular assumptions about the nature of evidence and standards of scholarship that make some forms of experience inaccessible to social researchers. If we want to fully understand the range of social experience—and not simply reproduce paradigms that were never designed for this purpose—we must return to the foundations of methodological assumptions and rebuild.