A. Fernandes

Epistemic Doubt as Method: Kinship, Refusal, and the Anticolonial Ethics of Researching the Familiar

In this paper, I introduce epistemic doubt and reflexive refusal as an anticolonial methodology for qualitative research. Tracing my attempt to study my brother’s memories of our racially divided hometown, I demonstrate how doubt, arising from the incommensurable tensions between kinship ethics and researcher positiona...