ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits some of the debates about the anti-racist politics of researching race and ethnicity. It argues that the challenges raised in these critiques continue to remain largely marginal in mainstream research methods literature and training even as social and demographic worlds becomes more diverse and heterogenous and the neglect of the ways in in which racisms, intersectionality and social difference are embedded in research projects. Using reflexive narratives and vignettes from previous research project experience the chapter suggests that co-production approaches can resonate with older anti-racist critiques of social research and reposition research methods. It concludes that decolonising research methods is necessary to develop epistemological understanding of racialisation processes and research craft appropriate for working in diverse and differentiated social worlds.
