Synopses & Reviews
Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study demonstrates how this standard can be put into practice. Portraying indigenous researchers as knowledge seekers who work to progress indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing in a constantly evolving context, this examination shows how relationships both shape indigenous reality and are vital to reality itself. These same knowledge seekers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony of maintaining accountability. Envisioning researchers as accountable to all relations, this overview proves that careful choices should be made regarding selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis, and the way in which information is presented.
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“Exquisite, contemplative, and urgent examination of the ways we can implement more equitable, community-oriented research methodologies that amplify the voices and experiences of the historically marginalized and disenfranchised.”
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“As a long-time CBPR (community-based participatory research) practitioner, I loved how Research Justice re-appropriates research as a space for love, reflexivity, cultural revitalization, community voice and power, and social transformation. Our imaginations are indeed inspired!”
Synopsis
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don't just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information. I'm an Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba currently living in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia. I'm also a father of three boys, a researcher, son, uncle, teacher, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker. As an educated Indian, I've spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and academic worlds. Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground.
Synopsis
Challenging traditional models for conducting social science research within marginalized populations, “research justice” is a strategic framework and methodological intervention that aims to transform structural inequalities in research. This book is the first to offer a close analysis of that framework and present a radical approach to socially just, community-centered research. It is built around a vision of equal political power and legitimacy for different forms of knowledge, including the cultural, spiritual, and experiential, with the goal of greater equality in public policies and laws that rely on data and research to produce social change.
About the Author
Andrew J. Jolivette is associate professor and chair of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also an affiliated faculty member in the Graduate Program in Sexuality Studies. He is the author of Cultural Representation in Native America and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Miho Kim Lee
Part One: Research Justice: Strategies for Knowledge Construction and Self-Determination
Research Justice: Radical Love as a Strategy for Social Transformation - Andrew Jolivette
Imagining Justice: Politics, Pedagogy, and Dissent - Antonia Darder
Blurred Lines: Creating and Crossing Boundaries between Interviewer and Subject - Amanda Freeman
Ethnography as a Research Justice Strategy - Liam Martin
Queered by the Archive: No More Potlucks and the Activist Potential of Archival Theory - Andrea Zeffiro and Mél Hogan
More Than Me - Nicole Blalock
Part Two: Research Justice: Strategies for Community Mobilization
The Socio-Psychological Stress of “Justice Denied”: Alan Crotzer's Story - Akeem T. Ray and Phyllis A. Gray
Formerly Incarcerated Women: Returning Home to Family and Community - Marta López-Garza
Disaster Justice: Mobilizing Grassroots Knowledge against Disaster Nationalism in Japan - Haruki Eda
A Health Justice Journey: Documenting Our Stories and Speaking for Ourselves - Alma Leyva, Imelda S. Plascencia and Mayra Yoana Jaimes Pena
By Us Not for Us: Black Women Researching Pregnancy and Childbirth - Julia Chinyere Oparah, Fatimah Salahuddin, Ronnesha Cato, Linda Jones, Talita Oseguera and Shanelle Matthews
Actos del Corazón: Las Sabias - Bridging the Digital Divide, and Redefining Historical Preservation - Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson with the Corazones del Westside
Part Three: Research Justice: Strategies for Social Transformation and Policy Reform
Everyday Justice: Tactics for Navigating Micro, Macro and Structural Discriminations from the Intersection of Jim Crow and Hurricane Katrina - Sandra E. Weissinger
The Revolutionary, Non-Violent Action of Danilo Dolci and His Maieutic Approach - Domenica Maviglia
Telling to Reclaim, not to Sell: Resistance Narratives and the Marketing of Justice - Amrah J. Salómon
Decolonizing Knowledge: Toward a Critical Research Justice Praxis in the Urban Sphere - Michelle Fine
Decolonizing Knowledge: Toward a Critical Indigenous Research Justice Praxis - Linda Tuhiwai Smith