ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author demonstrates that the process of unlearning using the key idea of theorizing from the streets. Theorizing from the streets highlights the ways in which the unlearning of colonial and privileged discourses has unfolded in the author's scholarly work in qualitative inquiry engaging in knowledge-making expansively within and beyond academia. Consequently, theorizing from the streets became a conscious effort to integrate information from outside the academic gaze, to expand to be legitimate sources and forms of knowledge. Theorizing from the streets thus constituted an ontoepistemic, methodological, contemplative, and aesthetic move/turn from that which was privileged, traditional, and/or deconstructive. This form of theorizing from the streets is an invitation to imagine, play, and expansive, rather than accepting the limitations of the binary relations of resistance and freedom, the oppressor and the oppressed. The chapter explains why and how the author's work was considered theorizing from the streets.
