(Method)ology in Decolonial Thinking and Praxis: Revisiting Paradigms in European Studies

Engaging with decolonial ontological and epistemological perspectives requires rethinking methodology as a central component of decolonial paradigms in European Studies. This paper examines how decolonial methodologies challenge Eurocentric, extractive, and hierarchical research traditions by advancing relational, situated, and co-creative approaches to knowledge production. Framed through pluriversal thinking and practices of unlearning, these methodologies foreground reflexivity, positionality, and knowledge co-creation as integral to ethical and epistemic transformation. By reconfiguring European Studies as a relational and co-constructed field of inquiry, decolonial methodologies contribute to the development of decolonial paradigms that promote epistemic plurality, accountability, and justice.