Engaging Indigenous Methodologies as Research Methods

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The Indigenous Epistemologies Reading Group brings together researchers and students from across the University departments interested in engaging with indigenous perspectives and epistemologies in their work and research. This reading group is a weekly gathering in which we critically explore the mechanisms and methods of knowledge production that we engage with in our own research through the lens of indigenous methods of world-knowing and world-making. We share and discuss indigenous scholarship, its intersection with the "western" academy, national politics, and corporate interests. We explore questions of sovereignty, epistemic oppression, relational worldviews and performative knowledge-making.

  1. What is an indigenous research methodology? S Wilson. Canadian journal of native education 25 (2), 175-179

     2. "Toward Developing Indigenous Methodologies: Kaupapa Maori Research" in Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous People by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, University of Otago Press, 1999. (Also in Smith, L. T. 2012. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 2nd edition, London & New York, Zed Books.)

For more information on how to register please contact Anya Gleizer (anna.gleizer@ouce.ox.ac.uk)


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