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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th Conference on Caribbean Research Methodologies (CRM) 2027

Jamaica

In partnership with ICARE (Intersectional and Comparative Advancement of Racial Equity)

Theme: Guerrilla Intellectualism and the Urgency of Caribbean Research Praxis

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The Caribbean Research Methodologies (CRM) invites proposals for its 2027 conference, which will take place on 13-15 January 2027 hosted by the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

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About the Conference

​The Fourth Conference on Caribbean Research Methodologies (CRM) 2027 invites scholars, activists, artists, and community researchers to engage the urgent task of (re)claiming, practising, and embedding Caribbean research methodologies across
academic, policy, and social spaces.

Drawing inspiration from Frantz Fanon’s assertion that “each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it” (Fanon, 1963, p. 166), this conference foregrounds guerrilla intellectualism—the radical, situated, and insurgent work of knowledge production shaped by Caribbean histories of resistance, creativity, survival, and care. We invite participants to explore and rethink aspects of radical thought in the Caribbean and to consider how such intellectual ruptures open new possibilities for research praxis.

CRM 2027 is in partnership with ICARE (International Collaboration for Anti-Racism in Education), an initiative focused on racial equity, social justice, belonging, and inclusion in higher education.

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Conference Strands

Proposals may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Radical thought and intellectual ruptures in the Caribbean

• Groundings and reasonings as research methodologies

• Indigenous, Maroon, Rastafari, Localised, and Caribbean epistemologies

• Language, translation, and Caribbean creolisation in research

• Research as resistance, activism, and liberated praxis

• Embodied, spiritual, and ancestral methodologies

• Reclaiming archives, oral histories, and memory work

• Reimagining ethics, citation, and intellectual sovereignty

• Caribbean youth, diaspora, and digital methodologies

• Pedagogies of refusal, love, and liberation

• Research in post-disaster, climate crisis, and other transitional contexts

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Overall Guidance (For All Submissions)
We invite contributions that embody the spirit of guerrilla intellectualism—work that is grounded, responsive, and accountable to Caribbean realities.

Across all formats, we encourage you to:
Centre praxis: Show how your work engages, shifts, or serves communities—not just how it theorises them.
Value multiple ways of knowing: Lived/living experience, cultural practice, storytelling, and community reasoning are valid and powerful forms of knowledge.
Write with purpose, not formula: Communicate what matters most, rather than follow rigid academic structures.
Locate yourself: Signal your relationship to the work (positionality, community ties, practice).
Invite engagement: Consider how your session will create connection, reflection, or participation.
We are interested in relevance, authenticity, and movement.

Submission Guidelines
We invite the following types of proposals:

(All submissions should clearly articulate the Type of Proposal, the methodological significance of the work and its relevance to the conference theme. All presenters are to submit a 100-word bio.)

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Papers (Individual or Panel)
250-word abstract

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Think of your abstract as a provocation:

What question, tension, or issue is driving your work?
How does it speak to Caribbean realities or urgencies?
What ways of knowing or methodological approaches are you drawing on?
What does your work do; what does it open, challenge, or reframe?
For panels, ensure a shared thread while allowing each contribution to retain its own voice and grounding.

Workshops/ Limin’ sessions rooted in method or practice
(250 word proposal)

These are spaces for collective being, doing, knowing, and learning.
What will participants experience (not just hear)?
How will knowledge be shared, co-created, or practised?
What tools, methods, or insights can participants carry forward?

Ground your session in culturally meaningful modes of engagement (e.g., liming, storytelling, reasoning).

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Creative or Community-Based Presentations
(250-word proposal)

We welcome forms that communicate beyond text.
What form will your presentation take (performance, film, exhibition, dialogue)?
What experiences are you creating for the audience?
How is the work rooted in community, collaboration, or lived/living realities?

Include any technical or spatial needs but keep the focus on impact and meaning.

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Roundtables or Dialogues
(250-word concept note with list of participants).

These are spaces for shared reasoning rather than sequential presentations.
What central issue or conversation will anchor the dialogue?
Who needs to be in the room (scholars, researchers, students, practitioners, community voices)?
How will the exchange unfold to encourage genuine dialogue?
Prioritise interaction, multiplicity of perspectives, and collective sense-making.

We welcome your work—alive, in motion, or unfinished.
All submissions should clearly articulate the methodological significance of the work and its relevance to the conference theme. All presenters are to submit a 100-word bio.

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Abstract Submissions— Click here to Submit Abstract

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Key Dates
Call for Papers Opens: 7 April 2026
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 31 July 2026
Conference Dates: 13 to 15 January 2027

Registration opens: 30 April 2026

For questions regarding the conference or abstract, contact camille.nakhid@aut.ac.nz.

Put ‘CRM2027 query’ in the email subject line.
 

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