decolonizing methodologies research and indigenous peoples linda tuhiwai smith

Research, like schooling, once the tool of colonization and oppression, is very gradually coming to be seen as a potential means to reclaim languages, histories, and knowledge, to ﬁnd solutions to the negative impacts of colonialism and to give voice to an alternative way of knowing and of being. These strategies often have led to innovative research questions, new methodologies, new research relationships, deep analyses of the researcher in context, and analyses, interpretations, and the making of meanings that have been enriched by indigenous concepts and language. Academic research facilitates diverse forms of economic and cultural imperialism by shaping and legitimating policies which entrench existing unjust power relations. Harald Gaski, University of Troms, Norway. Indigenist research also includes a critique of the “rules of practice regarding research, the way research projects are funded, and the development of strategies that address community concerns about the assumptions, ethics, purposes, procedures, and outcomes of research. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples Linda Tuhiwai Smith 142 Paperback 15 offers from £16.99 Product description We have needed this book. Linda Tuhiwai Smith's trail-blazing book is one of the greatest contributions towards instilling pride and dignity in indigenous peoples all over the world. More recently, however, indigenous researchers have been active in seeking ways to disrupt the “history of exploitation, suspicion, misunderstanding, and prejudice” of indigenous peoples in order to develop methodologies and approaches to research that privilege indigenous knowledges, voices, experiences, reﬂections, and analyses of their social, material, and spiritual conditions.

Author(s): Linda Tuhiwai Smith First Knowledges.

'Indigenous peoples are used to being studied by outsiders indeed, many of the basic disciplines of knowledge are implicated in studying the Other and creating expert knowledge. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.

Decolonizing methodologies research and indigenous peoples linda tuhiwai smith