Manifest Destiny), she is able to argue that this shift should resemble nothing less than a tour de force, where Western versions of history, writing, and theory must be carefully re-evaluated or deconstructed for lack of efficiency in giving justice to the Indigenous voice. By reviewing the way research has been shaped and woven into the grand narrative of Imperialism and expressed in the language of Colonialism (e.g. Her treatment of how its methods, in a number of ways, have undermined the integrity of countless Indigenous communities, has provided her with insight about the kind of epistemological shift that will be necessary for researchers to provide meaning, balance, and sensitivity to voice within Indigenous communities. Linda Tuhiwai Smith's book, Decolonizing Methodologies, provides a convenient template for viewing the impact Western-minded research, historically, has had upon effecting voice and identity in Indigenous communities. | Colonization - History.The American Indian Quarterly 29.1&2 (2005) 285-288 Includes bibliographical references and index. Towards Developing Indigenous Methodologies: Kaupapa Maori Research. Responding to the Imperatives of an Indigenous Agenda: A Case Study of Maori Articulating an Indigenous Research Agenda The Indigenous People's Project: Setting a New Agenda In setting an agenda for planning and implementing indigenous research, the author shows how such programmes are part of the wider project of reclaiming control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. The second part of the book meets an urgent demand: people who are carrying out their own research projects need literature which validates their frustrations in dealing with various Western paradigms. Extending the work of Foucault, she explores the intersections of imperialism, knowledge and research en route she provides a history of knowledge from the Enlightenment to postcoloniality.
In the first part of the book, the author critically examines the historical and philosophical base of Western research. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods. of Otago Press) (University of Otago Press) (limp) (paperback)įrom the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism the way in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. : University of Otago Press New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St.
London New York : Zed Books Dunedin, N.Z. Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples / Linda Tuhiwai Smith Book Bib ID
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