![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date."-Pub. The importance of clearer guidelines for conducting research among indigenous people cannot be over-emphasised. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. A decolonising research methodology is an approach that is used to challenge the Eurocentric research methods that undermine the local knowledge and experiences of the marginalised population groups 2. To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. From the vantage point of the colonized, the term research is inextricably linked with European colonialism the way in which scientific research has been. "This essential volume explores the ways in which imperils is embedded in the disciplines of knowledge, and argues that the decolonization of research methods will help reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being."-Excerpt from back cover of paperback, 2nd edition. ![]()
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