#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)
And it was #BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith that I began to question why we limit ourselves to human-only participants. Re-reading Decolonizing Methodologies and reflecting on research on the New Zealand Wars led me to question why we don't count the whenua as participant. (4/4)
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