Indigenous knowledge systems and community-based participatory research

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Michael Koskey
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems

scholarly journals Implementing Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems (Part 2): “You Have to Take a Backseat” and Abandon the Arrogance of Expertise

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather E Castleden ◽  
Debbie Martin ◽  
Ashlee Cunsolo ◽  
Sherilee Harper ◽  
Catherine Hart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Water Research ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
The Real ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Decolonizing Research

Despite innovative technological "solutions" to address ongoing water crises in Indigenous communities, significant disparities persist in Canada. Financial investment in infrastructure is necessary, but it is hardly sufficient to address the real problem: entrenched colonialism. One of the greatest challenges in decolonizing research is to prevent that research from reproducing the very categories it is seeking to critique and dismantle. We share findings from thematically-analyzed interviews with academic and community-based researchers who conducted water research with a stated intent to implement Western and Indigenous knowledge systems. Findings revealed that while there is co-learning, ontological and epistemological assumptions carried into these relationships often impede truly integrative practice. Respondents shared how they worked through these persistent barriers of a colonial system.

Indigenizing Participation for Sustainable Community-Based Development Programmes in Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962097933
Author(s):  
Evans Sakyi Boadu ◽  
Isioma Ile ◽  
Madonna Yaa Oduro
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems

The efficacy of indigenous knowledge and local participation has been argued to be some of the pathways to curbing the present indigenous community development impasse. Employing an in-depth qualitative research approach, 32 traditional and community development leaders as well as local government officials were interviewed to ascertain local the present community development paradigms and proposed future pathways. Drawing from local insights and a range of scholarly perspectives this paper assessed how meaningful indigenous knowledge systems and indigenous people can actively engage and sustain community-driven development programmes. Utilizing a process analysis, the paper, established that there is a disconnect between indigenous community knowledge systems, values, norms and other cultural realities and contemporary participatory community development approaches. It further illustrates, the absence of local participation in community development and proposed a framework for the integration of indigenous knowledge systems, institutions and other cultural realities in community-based development programmes to ensure development sustainability.

scholarly journals Decolonization of knowledge, epistemicide, participatory research and higher education

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Budd L. Hall ◽  
Rajesh Tandon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Word Knowledge ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Action Strategy ◽  
Knowledge Democracy

This article raises questions about what the word 'knowledge' refers to. Drawn from some 40 years of collaborative work on knowledge democracy, the authors suggest that higher education institutions today are working with a very small part of the extensive and diverse knowledge systems in the world. Following from de Sousa Santos, they illustrate how Western knowledge has been engaged in epistemicide, or the killing of other knowledge systems. Community-based participatory research is about knowledge as an action strategy for change and about the rendering visible of the excluded knowledges of our remarkable planet. Knowledge stories, theoretical dimensions of knowledge democracy and the evolution of community-based participatory research partnerships are highlighted.

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