This course explores how knowledge is created and whose questions are considered essential. It begins with the idea that decolonisation is not about applying existing theories or research questions developed in the Global North to the Global South. Instead, decolonisation involves asking radically different questions, questions that arise from the lived experiences, priorities, and struggles of people across the world.The course critically examines how dominant colonial histories have shaped knowledge production and continue to favour Eurocentric assumptions about what constitutes valid knowledge, which issues are fundamental, and which methods are suitable. Students will analyse how research agendas, academic disciplines, and institutional norms often sustain unequal power relations by depicting the Global South as a place for data extraction rather than as a space for theory development. Beyond critique, the course explores alternative methods of knowledge creation rooted in local contexts, relational ethics, and diverse ways of knowing. These include Indigenous and community-based epistemologies, participatory and activist research, oral and embodied knowledge practices, and methodologies that prioritise accountability to the communities from which the knowledge originates. The course emphasises epistemic humility, awareness of positionality, and understanding that all knowledge is situated.Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to rethink what it means to “do research” by learning to formulate questions that address the concerns of people within specific social, historical, and political contexts. By emphasising epistemic diversity and local priorities, the course invites students to envision more just, inclusive, and transformative ways of creating knowledge, approaches that challenge universalism and promote a truly plural, or pluriversal, understanding of the world.