Fieldwork Seminar in Decolonizing Research Methodologies

The Third Edition of the Fieldwork Seminar in Decolonizing Research Methodologies 13-24 October 2025 has now come to an end. Fourteen early career scholars from 12 countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sweden, Tanzania, Bolivia, France, Germany, Guinea, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, and Tunisia) participated actively in this course, combining on campus activities (plenary lecture, text seminars, workshops, library visits, book launch, etc.), and joint fieldwork in four parishes (socknar) of Gotland: Burgsvik, Klintehamn, Östergarn, and Fårösund.

The theme of this year's Fieldwork Seminar was Rural resilience and resistance, focusing on ongoing processes of change in rural areas of Gotland with the help of conceptual, and methodological work on decolonization, and decoloniality. Conversations, observations, and engagements in these parishes allowed to approach decolonization and decoloniality through social practices, and to experience anthropological team research methodology. On Thursday 23 Oct, an Open Seminar pdf, 265 kB. was hosted at Campus Gotland, Uppsala University, where research findings were discussd in dialogue with the hosts of our field sites.

After two weeks of intense work, participants and faculty/coordinators were inspired, energized, tired, and happy! Access the detailed programme pdf, 2 MB.. Read more about the VR-funded Decolonizing Research Methdologies programme.

The week after the end of the Fieldwork Seminar (27-31 Oct.), a Coordinators Meeting was organized with the project team to discuss lessons learned and future plans: Head of Project Sten Hagberg (Coordinator, Uppsala University); Baba Coulibaly (Coordinator, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Mali); Thomas Ndaluka (Coordinator, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania); Emil Sandström (Coordinator, Swedish Universoty of Agricultural Sciences); Patrice Toé (Coordinator, Université Nazi BONI, Burkina Faso); Paula Uimonen (Coordinator, Stockholm University); Jennifer Lorin (2025 Fieldwork Seminar Coordinator); and Oulia Makkonen (2022, and 2023 Fieldwork Seminar Coordinator).