Yarning as protected space: relational accountability in research

2021 ◽  
pp. 117718012098615
Author(s):  
Stuart Barlo ◽  
William (Bill) Edgar Boyd ◽  
Margaret Hughes ◽  
Shawn Wilson ◽  
Alessandro Pelizzon
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Data History ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
Relational Accountability ◽  
Relational Process ◽  
The Way

In this article, we open up Yarning as a fundamentally relational methodology. We discuss key relationships involved in Indigenous research, including with participants, Country, Ancestors, data, history, and Knowledge. We argue that the principles and protocols associated with the deepest layers of yarning in an Indigenous Australian context create a protected space which supports the researcher to develop and maintain accountability in each of these research relationships. Protection and relational accountability in turn contribute to research which is trustworthy and has integrity. Woven throughout the article are excerpts of a yarn in which the first author reflects on his personal experience of this research methodology. We hope this device serves to demonstrate the way yarning as a relational process of communication helps to bring out deeper reflection and analysis and invoke accountability in all of our research relationships.

scholarly journals Creating Ethical Research Partnerships – Relational Accountability in Action

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Robert Henry ◽  
Caroline Tait ◽  
STRAIGHT UP
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Street Gang ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
Relational Accountability

Research that focuses on Indigenous street gangs is primarily derived from the experiences and expertise of individuals who work in the criminal justice system or community-based organizations and not street gang members themselves (Grekul & LaRocque, 2011). The primary reason for this is that it is difficult to build research relationships with individuals who, for the majority of their lives, have tried to keep their lives hidden from those who they consider as outsiders. However, it is these narratives of those who have been directly involved with street gangs that provide the greatest insight into what attracts individuals to join, the realities of street gang life, and what is needed to support individuals to exit street gangs. The current article examines how relational accountability framed within the 4Rs (Kirkness & Barnhardt, 1991) was used to engage in a photovoice research project that focused on how Indigenous male ex-gang members came to construct their notions of masculinity within local street gangs. To engage the men in the research, relationships were built with STR8 UP, a community-based gang intervention program located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. By building relationships, the foundational components to Indigenous research, trust between researcher and participants was established where modifications within the research methods could occur to engage the men’s participation more fully. The current article also examines the importance of critical reflexivity within relational accountability, as it provides researchers with a tool to understand their social privileges and how this can impact the research process

scholarly journals Utilising the Concept of Pathway as a Framework for Indigenous Research

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (S1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Fredericks
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
The Way

AbstractDrawing on Gregory Cajete’s (1994, p. 55) explanation of “Pathway” (Path denoting structure, Way implying a process), a research framework was developed exploring Aboriginal women’s perceptions and experiences of health and health services. Developing the research methodology was like laying out the Path, as a well thought out structure or the plan for the research. It relates as an external landscape, not just in terms of the Path itself, but also the research process within the landscape of the site of the research. The Way, being the process, involved enabling a clear, thought out process for me to follow and additionally one for me within my Self. The research was informed and guided by Aboriginal women. I also travelled an internal landscape in the journey of the Self, within my own learning and coming to terms with myself as an Indigenous researcher within the Pathway.

Disrespect and political resistance

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Renante D. Pilapil
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Ethics Of Recognition ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The Way

This article examines the critical potential of Honneth’s theory or ethics of recognition by raising two concerns as regards the success of such a project. Firstly, this article argues that Honneth’s ethical turn in critical theory might not be completely warranted and that there are good reasons to supplement his theory of recognition with an account of justificatory practices. Secondly, it argues that the complexity of the beginnings of political resistance proves that an explanative gap remains to be filled to account for the way in which personal experience of disrespect can be transformed into a collective struggle for recognition. By way of conclusion, this article posits that instead of rejecting the critical potential of Honneth’s theory, the concerns raised therein are invitations to specify his theory further, so that contemporary struggles for recognition can be understood more profoundly.

scholarly journals Why Teach Environmental Ethics? Because We Already Do

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Christine Benton ◽  
Raymond Benton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Land Ethic ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn this paper we argue for the importance of the formal teaching of environmental ethics. This is, we argue, both because environmental ethics is needed to respond to the environmental issues generated by the neoliberal movement in politics and economics, and because a form of environmental ethics is implicit, but unexamined, in that which is currently taught. We maintain that students need to become aware of the latent ethical dimension in what they are taught. To help them, we think that they need to understand how models and metaphors structure and impact their worldviews. We describe how a simple in-class exercise encourages students to experience the way metaphors organize feelings, courses of action, and cognitive understandings. This is then intellectualized by way of Clifford Geertz's concept of culture and his model for the analysis of sacred symbols. From there we present a brief interpretation of modern economics as the embodiment of the dominant modern ethos. This leads into a consideration of ecology as a science, and to the environmental ethic embodied in Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic." We close with a personal experience that highlights how environmental teaching can make students aware of the presence of an implicit, but unexamined, environmental ethic.

Papacy, Crusade, and Christian-Muslim Relations

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Peace Movements ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond. Throughout the book, the contributors ask several important questions. Was Innocent III more theologian than lawyer-pope and how did his personal experience of earlier crusade campaigns inform his own vigorous promotion of the crusades? How did the outlook and policy of Honorius III differ from that of Innocent III in crucial areas including the promotion of multiple crusades (including the Fifth Crusade and the crusade of William of Montferrat) and how were both pope’s mindsets manifested in writings associated with them? What kind of men did Honorius III and Innocent III select to promote their plans for reform and crusade? How did the laity make their own mark on the crusade through participation in the peace movements which were so crucial to the stability in Europe essential for enabling crusaders to fulfill their vows abroad and through joining in the liturgical processions and prayers deemed essential for divine favor at home and abroad? Further essays explore the commemoration of crusade campaigns through the deliberate construction of physical and literary paths of remembrance. Yet while the enemy was often constructed in a deliberately polarizing fashion, did confessional differences really determine the way in which Latin crusaders and their descendants interacted with the Muslim world or did a more pragmatic position of ‘rough tolerance’ shape mundane activities including trade agreements and treaties?

He Āpiti Hono, He Tātai Hono: That Which is Joined Remains an Unbroken Line: Using Whakapapa (Genealogy) as the Basis for an Indigenous Research Framework

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 86-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Graham
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Unbroken Line

AbstractThis paper explores the notion of whakapapa as providing a legitimate research framework for engaging in research with Māori communities. By exploring the tradition and meaning of whakapapa, the paper will legitimate how whakapapa and an understanding of whakapapa can be used by Māori researchers working among Māori communities. Therefore, emphasis is placed on a research methodology framed by whakapapa that not only authenticates Māori epistemology in comparison with Western traditions, but that also supports the notion of a whakapapa research methodology being transplanted across the Indigenous world; Indigenous peoples researching among their Indigenous communities. Consequently, Indigenous identity is strengthened as is the contribution of the concept of whakapapa to Indigenous research paradigms worldwide.

scholarly journals Historias De La Mujer Según Julián Marí­as

Xihmai ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Ignacio Panedas Galindo [1]
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
The Way

ResumenHistoria e historias son dos caras de la misma moneda. La primera de ellas describe la narración de hechos. La segunda, explica la individual y personal vivencia de los hechos vividos. Si hablamos de la mujer, ambos se presentan indivisiblemente unidos. Hacemos, junto con el filósofo Julián Marí­as, un camino breve para entender la manera de cómo ser mujer en diferentes momentos históricos.Palabras clave: Mujer, Historia, historias, Julián Marí­as. Abstract History and stories are two sides of the same coin. The first one describes the narration of facts. The second, explains the individual and personal experience of the facts lived. If we talk about woman, both appear indivisibly united. We do, together with the philosopher Julián Marí­as, a brief path to understand the way of being a woman in different historical moments.Keywords: Woman, History, stories, Julián Marí­as. [1] Maestro en Filosofí­a y Doctor en Ciencias para la Familia. Tiene publicaciones en varios paí­ses sobre temas relacionadoscon su formación. Actualmente es Director de Posgradoe investigación de la Universidad La Salle Pachuca.

scholarly journals Attending Professional Health Education Meetings

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Eleanor Dixon-Terry
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
New Professionals ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Full Effect ◽  
Professional Health ◽  
Professional Meeting ◽  
Direct Immersion ◽  
The Way

The profession of health education and health promotion involves a journey of discovery, where along the way, the student and new professional is uncovers many layers and nuances. One of the mysteries surrounding the profession is the participation in a professional meeting. Student and new professionals often perceive this to be challenging, overwhelming and fraught with roadblocks and barriers. While understanding perceptions of mystery from those entering the field about professional meetings, the best way to fully engage in the profession and to get the full effect and benefit of a professional health education meeting is through direct immersion and personal experience.

Book Review: Hate, Inc.: Why today's media makes us despise one another by Matt Taibbi

2021 ◽  
pp. 193124312110648
Author(s):  
Philip S. Poe
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Way

Matt Taibbi's “Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise Each Other” (OR Books 2021) might make you angry, but it will make you think. Taibbi's takedown of commercial media, now updated in a post-election edition, offers a striking critique of the news media's slow but steady slide toward polarization “…skewed by a toxic mix of political and financial considerations” (20). Taibbi convincingly argues, using both historical and modern examples along with personal experience, that the press sells people on a simplified worldview where the two political parties are in a constant and perpetual conflict about everything. While Taibbi does offer some advice for independent-minded journalists seeking to navigate the current media landscape, audiences are left with little in the way of solutions, other than to stop reading (and watching) the news.

Ethical Issues in Qualitative Data Collection and Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 697-713
Author(s):  
Cees Th Smit Sibinga
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Collection And Management ◽  
Fair Chance ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection ◽  
The Way

Qualitative data collection is largely defined by the personal experience and opinions of the examinee. The examinee is central in the approach, and not so much the researcher. The essence is a communication between the researcher and the examinee, where interpretation of both the questions asked and the answers provided serves the purpose of understanding. This type of research is interpretative and almost exclusively subjective, because the personal or subjective way of understanding and interpretation is central. However, there is certainly a serious possibility for external influence on the answers to be provided or even the way answers are interpreted. Additionally, there is a fair chance that the questions are phrased towards expected answers. There are various moments where ethics are paramount to the quality and acceptability of the research. To protect objectivity, ethical professionalism and professional morale are important. This chapter aims to describe and discuss ethical issues related to collection and management of data from qualitative research.

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