scholarly journals Approaching Nonhuman Ontologies: Trees, Communication, and Qualitative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042199495
Author(s):  
Sarah Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Emergence Theory ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Ontological Emergence

Consideration of trees has historically been confined to disciplinary, quantitative perspectives embedded in botany, earth sciences, resource management, environmental sustainability, and sustainable development wherein trees are largely viewed as senseless, bio-mechanical matter to be controlled and used for human consumption and economic gain. In this article, I reflect selectively on methodologies and methods I used in a broader, interdisciplinary project to study the sentient, intelligent relationality of trees as agentic, conscious, innovative entities embedded in unique, community-based lifeways. My research framework integrated Indigenous research methodologies, public ethnography, ontological emergence theory, plant science, philosophies of plant and nonhuman knowing, interspecies communication, and filmmaking. Herein, I focus on how perspectives and approaches based on qualitative, ethnographic inquiry and Indigenous epistemologies support and broaden research, (re)presentation, and engagement with trees and other nonhumans. Methods I discuss include the practices of cultivating tree/human communication and fostering human sensitivity and embodied knowing.

scholarly journals Considering Indigenous Research Methodologies: Critical Reflections by an Indigenous Knower

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Gone
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
University Settings

Within the domain of academic inquiry by Indigenous scholars, it is increasingly common to encounter enthusiasm surrounding Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRMs). IRMs are designated approaches and procedures for conducting research that are said to reflect long-subjugated Indigenous epistemologies (or ways of knowing). A common claim within this nascent movement is that IRMs express logics that are unique and distinctive from academic knowledge production in “Western” university settings, and that IRMs can result in innovative contributions to knowledge if and when they are appreciated in their own right and on their own terms. The purpose of this article is to stimulate exchange and dialogue about the present and future prospects of IRMs relative to university-based academic knowledge production. To that end, I enter a critical voice to an ongoing conversation about these matters that is still taking shape within Indigenous studies circles.

scholarly journals Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies: lessons learned from the Nuxalk Sputc Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle Beveridge ◽  
Megan F. Moody ◽  
Bernie Pauly ◽  
Grant Murray ◽  
Chris T. Darimont
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies

scholarly journals Indigenous Research Methodologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Indigenous Methodologies ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies

The transnational perspectives offered in Indigenous Research Methodologies by Bagele Chilisa make this book not only a valuable resource for university- and community-based research and engagement, but also one with practical and wide-reaching appeal for scholars, community researchers, and graduate students. Bagele Chilisa, a Botswanabased scholar, undertakes an extensive examination of Indigenous methodologies that draws on theories and practices from a variety of cultural and academic contexts. Her examples range across African proverbs and songs, Indigenous story-telling and mixed research methods including Indigenized Euro-Western approaches.

Imagining the possibilities of a cross-cultural oral narrative portraiture method: stepping beyond binary discourses

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Sara Weuffen ◽  
Aunty Marjorie Pickford
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Intercultural Research ◽  
Researcher Identity

AbstractContemporary scholarly critique in Indigenous research spaces has tended to focus on binary dualities, including the purpose of Indigenous-focused research, and the legitimacy of researcher identity, research knowledge and truth. Yet, perhaps unintentionally, such interrogation has led to the continued (re)construction and maintenance of false race-based dichotomies. In this paper, one way in which we seek to step beyond binary race-based discourses is by advocating for the advancement of cross-cultural research practices that interweave traditional and contemporary communication practices. We put forward the case that by knitting together Eurocentric and Indigenous research methodologies, Lawrence-Lightfoot's (2005, Qualitative Inquiry 11, 3–15) portraiture method, and Aboriginal practices of storytelling/yarning, the cross-cultural oral narrative portraiture method enables co-construction of more holistic, culturally nuanced and responsive stories, where meaning, context and reason resonate. In the 21st century research space, we open dialogue for thinking about data as stories, and advocate for contemporary intercultural research processes that are inclusive, engaging and promote co-construction of narratives for storying.

scholarly journals Shifting the Framework of Canadian Water Governance through Indigenous Research Methods: Acknowledging the Past with an Eye on the Future

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Arsenault ◽  
Sibyl Diver ◽  
Deborah McGregor ◽  
Aaron Witham ◽  
Carrie Bourassa
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Indigenous Research Methods

First Nations communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by poor water quality. As one example, many communities have been living under boil water advisories for decades, but government interventions to date have had limited impact. This paper examines the importance of using Indigenous research methodologies to address current water issues affecting First Nations. The work is part of larger project applying decolonizing methodologies to Indigenous water governance. Because Indigenous epistemologies are a central component of Indigenous research methods, our analysis begins with presenting a theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous water relations. We then consider three cases of innovative Indigenous research initiatives that demonstrate how water research and policy initiatives can adopt a more Indigenous-centered approach in practice. Cases include (1) an Indigenous Community-Based Health Research Lab that follows a two-eyed seeing philosophy (Saskatchewan); (2) water policy research that uses collective knowledge sharing frameworks to facilitate respectful, non-extractive conversations among Elders and traditional knowledge holders (Ontario); and (3) a long-term community-based research initiative on decolonizing water that is practicing reciprocal learning methodologies (British Columbia, Alberta). By establishing new water governance frameworks informed by Indigenous research methods, the authors hope to promote innovative, adaptable solutions, rooted in Indigenous epistemologies.

scholarly journals Editorial

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aileen Moreton-Robinson ◽  
Maggie Walter ◽  
David Singh
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Indigenous Methods

This edition of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies marks the tenth since the journal’s launch in 2008. During that time, over forty articles and eleven book reviews have been published, which is testament to the continuing upward trajectory of Critical Indigenous Studies. Although there continues to be an increasing range of areas of Indigenous research to which a critical focus is brought to bear, a consistent issue for many of the journal’s contributors has been the delineation and application of Indigenous methods and methodologies in social research. The present edition is no exception, with two articles focussing on Indigenous-centred research. The first, by Krystal Summers, reflexively explores the author’s experiences as an undergraduate student undertaking Indigenous-centred research in Peru. As an Indigenous First Nations woman, Summers was mindful that her research practice was faithful to the ethics and protocols outlined in her original project proposal. Her subsequent ‘journey of critical reflexive understanding and storytelling’ supports the proposition of current literature in Indigenous research methodologies that a properly critical Indigenous ethnography will naturally enjoin with Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies

scholarly journals Silent Voices, Absent Bodies, and Quiet Methods: Revisiting the Processes and Outcomes of Personal Knowledge Production Through Body-Mapping Methodologies Among Indigenous Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692098793
Author(s):  
Darrien Morton ◽  
Kelley Bird-Naytowhow ◽  
Andrew R. Hatala
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Body Mapping ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Theater Program ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies

At the interface of Western and Indigenous research methodologies, this paper revisits the place of the “personal” and “autobiographical” self in qualitative visual research. We outline a community and partnership-based evaluation of a theater program for Indigenous youth using arts-based body-mapping approaches in Saskatoon, Canada, and explore the methodological limitations of the narrator or artist’s voice and representations to translate personal visual-narratives and personal knowledges they hold. In so doing, we describe how body-mapping methods were adapted and improvised to respond to the silent voices and absent bodies within personal visual-narratives with an epistemological eclecticism handling the limitations of voice and meaningfully engaging the potentiality of quietness. Extending the conceptual and methodological boundaries of the “personal” and “autobiographical” for both narrator and interlocutor, artist and observer, we contribute to debates on the processes and outcomes of personal knowledge production by articulating a generative, ethical, and culturally-grounded project mobilizing body-mapping as a quiet method that pursues self-work—the passionate and emergent practices of working on one’s self and making self appear in non-representational and ceremonial ways.

Indigenous research methodologies: decolonizing the Australian sports sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1231-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuguy Esgin ◽  
Deborah Hersh ◽  
Kevin Rowley ◽  
John Gilroy ◽  
Robert U Newton
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Interclass Correlation ◽  
Excellent Internal Consistency ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodologies ◽  
Barriers And Motivators ◽  
Sports Sciences

Abstract To design a questionnaire that would determine an Indigenous individual’s perceptions of the barriers and motivators to aerobic and anabolic exercise with a series of questions designed to elicit the factors that impact uptake and retention of regular physical activity. For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed to capture information relating to motivators and barriers, traditional physical activities, preferred exercise environments, exercise goals and levels of commitment to physical activity. This article does not report the results of the questionnaire itself but the preparation that was required in order to develop it. Indigenous standpoint theory. Participatory Action Research. A series of consultation meetings were arranged between the first author, a Noongar Aboriginal researcher, with a range of people from the same Noongar community as the author to discuss priorities and develop questions. The drafted questionnaire was shaped with continuous Noongar community feedback to ensure the language, length and appropriateness of questions. Questionnaire reliability was assessed using interclass correlation. Most questions had excellent internal consistency. A consensus was reached on the utility of the questionnaire. The personal contacts of the first author and nature of community involvement in the development of this questionnaire were helpful in assuring that it would be an acceptable tool for the Noongar community. The piloting of the questionnaire was also important in confirming its community acceptability. This article provides a model and suggestions for researching physical activity and exercise in a culturally safe manner.

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