Respectful Research
When doing research on living peoples, especially those that have been repeatedly marginalized, exploited, and forced from their lands through systemic oppression and racism, it's important to be respectful, and to act with care to the real humans you are reading about. These legacies contribute to generational trauma and it's important to consider any harm that research into, for example, Hawaiian cultural practices, that may occur if you go about it without respecting the voices, experiences, and histories of the people you are listening to.
When conducting research in this area, consider reviewing resources on indigenous knowledge, indigenous methodologies and how this information can inform your perspective. There are resources below that go into respectful research practices in more detail, please take the time to review them.
For Doing Research on/for Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Information LiteracyThis book outlines best principles for working with Indigenous print and oral sources in academic research. Topics include evaluating Indigenous print sources for credibility and authenticity, finding Indigenous authors, and respectfully working with Elders.
- "For researchers: Doing Indigenous research in a good way" - Memorial University / written by Indigenous researchers, advisors, administratorsAn FAQ based on questions Indigenous researchers, advisors and administrators, often hear or wish researchers knew more about.
Citing Traditional Knowledge or Oral Histories
- Citing Traditional Knowledge or Oral Traditions of Indigenous Peoples - APA StyleHow to cite Oral Tradition or other Native knowledge.
Conducting Indigenous Research (as Indigenous Students)
- Indigenous Research Paradigm Model developed by Lori Lambert, Ph.D. Sourced from: americanindigenousresearchassociation.org
Decolonizing Methodologies by
'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University 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 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.
ISBN: 9781848139534Publication Date: 2013-10-10
- Peer Reviewed Article of Decolonizing Methodologies: Toward a Genealogy of the Researcher as Subject by Miranda JohnsonJohnson, "examine[s] how the role of the researcher is conceptualized in Linda Tuhiwai Smith's landmark work Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999). Revealing tensions between objectivity and intersubjectivity, on the one hand, and between essentialist identity and hybridity, on the other, [Johnson] ask[s] why Smith's book hinges on dichotomizing nonindigenous and indigenous researchers, who are by turn enabled or constrained in a colonial present."
The Past Before Us: Mo'okū'auhau as Methodology by
In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka 'Oiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mo'okū'auhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies. These contributors, Kānaka, writing from Hawai'i as well as from the diaspora throughout the Pacific and North America, come from a wide range of backgrounds including activism, grassroots movements, and place-based cultural practice, in addition to academia. Their work offers broadly applicable yet deeply personal perspectives on complex Hawaiian issues and demonstrates that enduring ancestral ties and relationships to the past are not only relevant but integral, to contemporary Indigenous scholarship. Chapters on language, literature, cosmology, spirituality, diaspora, identity, relationships, activism, colonialism, and cultural practices unite around methodologies based on mo'okū'auhau. This cultural concept acknowledges the times, people, places, and events that came before; it is a fundamental worldview that guides our understanding of the present and our navigation into the future. This book is a welcome addition to the growing fields of Indigenous, Pacific Islands, and Hawaiian studies.
ISBN: 9780824873387Publication Date: 2019-04-30
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