This article traces how coloniality traps research and researchers in the Global North into maintaining the rigidity of its politics and logics through the meaning process. As International Social Work continues to gain popularity, supporting the proliferation of research across borders, the theoretical underpinnings must be unpacked with the context of the collaboration and the cultures involved that give meaning to both. The crux of the article rests within the implications for qualitative research in social work—both within, and across borders as a way of promoting social justice with marginalized communities. It also provides new possibilities for transcending and translating methodologies across the fields of social work and anthropology. To illustrate how research operates under the rubric of coloniality, this article uses autoethnography to uncover the on-the-ground realities of working across localities. The auto-ethnography revealed that despite the goal of sharing control of the research process, tensions related to coloniality emerged. As a result of working in different localities, each team’s processes became distinct—as it was informed by different historical, economic and geopolitical processes.
The following paper is an account of a situational analysis in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) ward. Initially it was intended to test a number of hypotheses extracted from the literature, and, using previous experience from participant observation, apply them to this particular clinical area. Becoming established ('getting in') in the new unit to be studied (situation) took 6 months and, although it was eventually possible to test the original hypotheses, the process of 'getting in' became the main point of analysis. Taking into account the situation of 'getting in', the conversations with the nursing staff and the background information, it is concluded that the HIV/AIDS predicament is and will continue to provide a major challenge for nurses and nurse educators.
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