R-Words: Refusing Research

Does Beyoncé’s Lemonade Really Teach Us How to Turn Lemons into Lemonade?: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities Through Black Feminism

“…She argues that our experiences with betrayal is not disconnected from the history of subjugation Black people continue to reckon with. Rather than producing a pain narrative (Tuck & Yang, 2014), however, through a penchant for the melodramatic, Lemonade adds complexity to the experience by claiming that healing, reconciliation, and self-discovery are available to both the aggrieved and the perpetrator. Lemonade offers a new re-presentation of Black womanhood in the 21st century without sacrificing or marginalizing the social and historical realities Black people face.…”

Voice Under Scrutiny: Feminist Methods, Anticolonial Responses, and New Methodological Tools

“…What does, or can, research do (Hunt, 2014;de Leeuw et al, 2012;Mahtani, 2014;Tuck and Yang, 2014)? By interrogating the use of voice, critics present fundamental epistemological challenges to social science.…”

Whose Infrastructure? Towards Inclusive and Collaborative Knowledge Infrastructures in Open Science

“…extract local knowledge, for profit, without compensation for communities themselves. This is a phenomenon that has been increasingly documented (Tuck and Yang 2014;Smith 1999) in other localities. Therefore, the very idea of harnessing and "opening" community knowledge on climate change for the benefit of outsiders was met with great resistance.…”