Doing Research in Postcolonial Times

Doing research in times when certainties and unquestioned presumptions of the Western world have started to be put into question, ignoring the pressing concerns stressed by post- and decolonial perspectives would be tantamount to maintaining and defending the status quo of a social theory and social research that still comprises assumptions and practices tainted with Eurocentric implications and discriminatory consequences. Joyce A. Ladner (1998: 419) describes the situation I am facing due to the research I have been engaged with as follows.