Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology

Synopsis

From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a historical record, as a form of teaching and learning, and as an expression of indigenous culture and identity. But such traditions have too often been relegated to the realm of myth and legend, recorded as fragmented distortions, or erased altogether.Decolonizing Research brings together indigenous researchers and activists from Canada, Australia and New Zealand to assert the unique value of indigenous storywork as a focus of research, and to develop methodologies that rectify the colonial attitudes inherent in much past and current scholarship. By bringing together their own indigenous perspectives, and by treating indigenous storywork on its own terms, the contributors illuminate valuable new avenues for research, and show how such reworked scholarship can contribute to the movement for indigenous rights and self-determination.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

304 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781786994622

Related ISBNs:

9781786994608

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

06/28/21

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Jo-ann Archibald Xiiem

Edited by:

Jenny Bol Lee-Morgan

Edited by:

Jason De Santolo

Foreword by:

Linda Tuhiwai Smith