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Decolonizing methodologies, research and indigenous peoples, Linda Tuhiwai Smith

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Decolonizing methodologies

electronic resource

bibliography

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

research and indigenous peoples

This is a powerful deconstruction of the western imperialist research tradition. It is readable and beautifully written, drawing on the author's own Maori experience., With Decolonizing Methodologies, Linda Tuhiwai Smith made us rethink the relationship between scholarly research and the legacies of colonialism, and to confront the reality that, for the colonized, such research was often inextricably bound up with memories of exploitation. Offering a visionary new `decolonizing' approach to research methodology, her book has continued to inspire generations of decolonial and indigenous scholars. This revised and expanded new edition demonstrates the continued importance of Tuhiwai Smith's work to today's struggles, including the growing movement to decolonize education and the university curriculum. It also features contributions from both new and established indigenous scholars on what a decolonizing approach means for both the present and future of academic research, and provides practical examples of how decolonial and indigenous methodologies have been fruitfully applied to recent research projects. Decolonizing Methodologies remains a definitive work in the ongoing struggle to reclaim indigenous ways of knowing and being