Decolonizing Methodologies

Decolonizing Methodologies

- Research and Indigenous Peoples

 

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

 

리뷰 논문이 꽤 돼는 연구물이다. 그녀는 서구의 연구방법론이 제국주의와 식민주의와 관련되었다는 주장을 한다.

 

“It appals us that the West can desire, extract and claim ownership of our ways of knowing, our imagery, the things we create and produce, and then simultaneously reject the people who created and developed those ideas and seek to deny them further opportunities to be creators of their own culture and own nations.” (1)

“research is one of the ways in which the underlying code of imperialism and colonialism is both regulated and realized.” (7)

 

Abstract

From the vantage point of indigenous peoples, the term "research" is inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism. In this book, an indigenous researcher calls for the decolonization of research methods. The first part of the book critically examines the historical and philosophical bases of Western research; Western conceptions of the individual and society, space, and time; colonial schooling and other ways of establishing the superior position of Western knowledge; the position of Native intellectuals within their own societies; the ways in which informal systems of collecting information about indigenous societies became institutionalized within the New Zealand colonial context; and current threats to indigenous communities' control of their own knowledge and culture. The second part focuses on research conceptualized and carried out by indigenous people working as researchers in indigenous communities. A framework for an indigenous research agenda is set out that encompasses the processes of decolonization, healing, mobilization, and transformation within four community statuses: survival, recovery, development, and self-determination. Numerous examples of indigenous research projects in New Zealand and North America, including projects concerned with education and language maintenance, demonstrate the ways in which an indigenous research agenda is being articulated and indigenous knowledge is being validated. (Contains references and an index.) (SV)