Thank you to Tuhiwai Smith for her wisdom and for the indigenous scholars and activists contributing to this movement to center community needs.moreĭense and laborious to get through, but (unlike so many theoretical works) not because it was incomprehensible, but because every sentence seemed vital and applicable to my own work and needed to be mulled over in my mind. From what I’ve observed and experienced, so much of academia is built on gatekeeping, ego-building (e.g., getting pubs for the sake of lengthening one’s CV and the system rewarding that), and competition and prestige, instead of centering actual community members. She provides hope too such as by highlighting examples of indigenous scholarship and how indigenous researchers have formed deep bonds with their communities.Īs someone in academia considering an academic career long-term, I definitely want to internalize this book’s messages and act on them. She makes several well-reasoned points about the importance of actually giving research back to communities, as well as how the intention of the researcher doesn’t really matter when considering the impact of research on communities. Linda Tuhiwai Smith writes with firm strength and intelligence about the history of imperialism and colonization and how indigenous communities have been exploited by researchers for a long time. She makes several well-reasoned points about the importance of actu Okay such an amazing and powerful book about decolonizing research that I would recommend to anyone in academia or anyone who feels interested about research, with the caveat that the book is written with an indigenous audience in mind. Okay such an amazing and powerful book about decolonizing research that I would recommend to anyone in academia or anyone who feels interested about research, with the caveat that the book is written with an indigenous audience in mind. It brilliantly demonstrates that "when indigenous peoples become the researchers and not merely the researched, the activity of research is transformed.". 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.Įxploring the broad range of issues which have confronted, and continue to confront, indigenous peoples, in their encounters with western knowledge, this book also sets a standard for truly emancipatory research.
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The second part of the book meets the urgent need for people who are carrying out their own research projects, for literature which validates their frustrations in dealing with various western paradigms, academic traditions and methodologies, which continue to position the indigenous as 'Other'. Providing a history of knowledge from the Enlightenment to Postcoloniality, she also discusses the fate of concepts such as 'discovery, 'claiming' and 'naming' through which the west has incorporated and continues to incorporate the indigenous world within its own web.
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Extending the work of Foucault, she explores the intersections of imperialism, knowledge and research, and the different ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and methodologies as 'regimes of truth'. In the first, 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. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism the ways 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. From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism the ways 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.