Bricolage: A tool for race-related, historically situated complex research.

To engage in bricolage, researchers should begin by reading and comparing ideas across disciplines to expose disciplinary-specific assumptions, as well as learn about new theories, approaches and methods that might be utilised for a bricolage project. Researchers should also ask themselves philosophical questions to identify new readings or their data. And finally, researchers should experiment with analytical metaphors because they help to frame new relationships between seemingly unrelated theories, methods and concepts. As researchers engage in bricolage, they need to sidestep their training and over-reliance on research protocols and checklists and engage in a creative tinkering to interpret the world in new ways. In doing so, scholars will be able to push traditional research boundaries and generate critical dialogue to move the field forward.