In:Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 11] 2025
► pp. 253–260
Chapter 13Commentary: Challenging extractive epistemologies through positionalities of relation and community
accountability
Published online: 7 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.11.13ghi
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.11.13ghi
Abstract
This commentary on Part 3 of Innovative Qualitative
Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying Voices from Immigrant, Transnational, and
Refugee Communities focuses on how qualitative literacy researchers have begun to rethink positionality
in ways that challenge extractivist epistemologies and create new opportunities to work alongside and in the service
of multilingual, transnational, and/or immigrant and refugee communities.
Keywords: qualitative, literacy, multilingual, methodology, positionality
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