ABSTRACT
A fundamental epistemological shift in the very questions and productions of knowledge in the field was necessary in order to move forward. This shift would need to be tectonic so as to provoke revolutionary thinking about the very knowledge of the field and how to decolonize it. Engaging with the coloniality of power is a central construct of epistemological disruption within the context of decolonizing interpretive methodology. If epistemology is defined as the study of knowledge, its sources, structures, and borders, and how knowledge gets created, justified, disseminated, and legitimized, an epistemological disruption means re-reading and re-inventing the dominant discourse. Boaventura de Sousa Santos has argued that an abyssal line divides the hegemonic epistemological terrain—a line that depicts the global South as non-existent. The epistemological disruption essential to a decolonizing methodology can and must be present in any study with an underlying transformative intent.
