From Aotearoa New Zealand, Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, four scholars came together to write on an Indigenous  and Local research methodologies. We were excited that calls were being made for the confirmation and acceptance of culturally relevant and affirming research methodologies in the Caribbean, grounded in Caribbean peoples' contexts, world views and interactions. After many discussions with academics and comunities on cultural practices in our respective islands, we developed  liming as a research methodology, simultaneously affirming that ole talk be considered as an acceptable method for gathering knowledge in a research context.

One of our aims was to allow academic institutions to re-examine the ways and the frameworks in which research methodologies are taught, to enable researchers to identify and appreciate cultural ways of knowing that would lend themselves to a more accurate and truthful sharing of knowledge. In the initial papers that were published as a collective, LOT (Liming and Ole Talk) was used as an acronym for the research approach that we were developing. However, further exploration and analysis of the research approach, and as we shared our work with Caribbean peoples, prompted a move away from that abbreviation to a more meaningful, philosophical and cultural positioning. ‘Liming Methodology’ resonated with the cultural practices which underpinned it as a research strategy. 
 

Our initial group comprised with Professor Camille Nakhid, Dr. Anabel Fernandez Santana, Dr. Shakeisha Wilson-Scott, and Dr. Margaret Nakhid-Chatoor. We were subsequently joined by Bro. Dr. Ato Rockcliffe (Guyana) and Dr. Talia Esnard (St. Lucia).

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Peruse our articles. Join us in our OnLimes. Attend the CRM conferences. If change is to happen in Caribbean research and the affirmation of Indigenous and Local cultural practices, this must happen now.