ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author draws on a Leverhulme-funded research project of listening to migrant and refugee women's narratives of displacement and travelling, by looking back at the ways she has experimented with epistemologies, methodologies, and theories that could advance a decolonizing feminist approach. In charting analytical lines that have emerged from her immersion in the soundscapes of uprooted women's stories, the author discusses the following themes: (a) decolonizing ways of knowing and understanding, (b) decolonizing relations within heteropatriarchy, (c) decolonizing freedom, and (d) decolonizing human rights discourses and practices. What she argues is that uprooted women's narratives have created an archive of existential experiences that act as counter memories, of who they are, how they act, and what they can become. She has also seen these stories as affirmative and generative of new knowledges to come—a field that she configures as feminist surging knowledges.
