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#BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith
I was able to draw on research methodologies that challenged the dominant paradigm of research and I was confident enough to cite as many Aboriginal scholars throughout my thesis - despite being told in my Confirmation to ‘cite’ white men!
I was able to draw on research methodologies that challenged the dominant paradigm of research and I was confident enough to cite as many Aboriginal scholars throughout my thesis - despite being told in my Confirmation to ‘cite’ white men!
Studying in a HWI for #Blacademics can be extremely draining - not only because of the ‘expected free labour’ but the fact that your lived experience as a researcher is ignored & denied, ensuring academia and valid knowledge is centred around whiteness!
There is a huge gap in the lived experiences of researchers in academia (obvs other spaces but I’m taking about a specific space)! We are never going to learn from books written by people with no experience but interviewing techniques. We must centre real life experiences.
#BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith I began my journey back to te ao Māori. I read her Decolonizing Methodologies as a new doctoral student and it challenged my thoughts about myself. It challenged me to think about anthropological research and theory. (1/4)
It was #BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith that I began to recognise the myriad ways colonialism shaped my perception and understanding of the world. It was the provocation to begin decolonizing myself. (2/4)
It was #BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith that I even thought to try to merge kaupapa Māori notions of research and knowledge with those of my participants in my study of Bamar connectedness in Myanmar. (3/4)
