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.

As Caribbean societies continue to confront postcolonial inequality, epistemic violence, and extractive research practices, the Caribbean Research Methodologies (CRM) movement centres practices such as groundings, reasoning, ole talk (Trinidad and Tobago), limin’ (Caribbean wide), storytelling, jangueo (Puerto Rico), dar muela (Cuba), par (Jamaica), embodied inquiry, and other regionally rooted traditions—not as cultural artefacts or supplements, but as rigorous, generative, and transformative research methodologies.

CRM 2027 is a space for rethinking what it means to research in, with, and for the Caribbean. We invite proposals that demonstrate methodological innovation grounded in affirming Caribbean epistemologies, ontologies, and research practices. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work is especially welcome, as is scholarship that engages communities, movements, and alternative sites of knowledge production.

CRM 2027 is hosted 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. ICARE participants will be integrated across CRM sessions. Those wishing to present their work are welcome to respond to the CRM call for papers; participation is also open to those attending without submitting an abstract.