The critical methods collective arranges conferences about the politics of knowledge production and supports critical research, guerilla publishing and radical teaching initiatives. We are a loose grouping of lecturers and students at South African universities, but our focus is on international as much as on South African issues.

We are interested in the critical possibilities of social science methodologies and in ways of understanding and disrupting knowledge production processes inside and beyond the academy.

Among many other resources this site includes an archive of papers from almost a decade of critical methods conferences and the collaborative learning environments sourcebook.

• Critical Methods Nine, Trauma in Context, was held in August 2004.  A list of abstracts is available.
• The 2005 conference was part of the International Critical Psychology Conference: Beyond the pale - 28 June to 1 July 2005, Durban, South Africa.
• The 2008 conference "DESPAIR AND HOPE IN THE EMPIRE AT THE END OF DAYS" will be held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown - 7 to 8 July 2008.