Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples /Linda Tuhiwai Smith

By: Linda Tuhiwai SmithContributor(s): Linda Tuhiwai SmithMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: London Dunedin, N.Z. : Zed Books : University of Otago Press , 2012Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9781848139503Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: ColonizationDDC classification: 305.80072 SMI
Contents:
Imperialism, history, writing and theory -- Research through imperial eyes -- Colonizing knowledges -- Research adventures on indigenous lands -- Notes from down under -- The indigenous peoples' project : setting a new agenda -- Articulating an indigenous research agenda -- Twenty-five indigenous projects -- Responding to the imperatives of an indigenous agenda : a case study of Maori -- Towards developing indigenous methodologies : Kaupapa Maori research -- Choosing the margins : the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice -- Getting the story right, telling the story well : indigenous activism, indigenous research -- Conclusion : a personal journey.
Summary: To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and
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Imperialism, history, writing and theory --
Research through imperial eyes --
Colonizing knowledges --
Research adventures on indigenous lands --
Notes from down under --
The indigenous peoples' project : setting a new agenda --
Articulating an indigenous research agenda --
Twenty-five indigenous projects --
Responding to the imperatives of an indigenous agenda : a case study of Maori --
Towards developing indigenous methodologies : Kaupapa Maori research --
Choosing the margins : the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice --
Getting the story right, telling the story well : indigenous activism, indigenous research --
Conclusion : a personal journey.

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and

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