‘Don't talk about what you don't know’: on (not) conducting research with/in Indigenous contexts
‘Don't talk about what you don't know’: on (not) conducting research with/in Indigenous contexts
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“不要谈论你不知道的事情”：关于（不）在土著背景下进行研究
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2013
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N. Aveling
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本文提出了一个反复出现的问题：非土著研究人员是否应该尝试与土著社区一起进行研究/在土著社区中进行研究。如果研究确实是殖民化的隐喻，那么我们有两个选择：我们必须学会以满足原住民社区需求、非剥削性、文化适宜性和包容性的方式进行研究，或者我们需要放弃我们作为原住民环境中的研究人员的角色，为原住民研究人员让路。这两种选择都很复杂。因此，在这篇文章中我回顾了我的学习历程；这一旅程最终使我认识到，我不适合在原住民背景下进行研究，但我可以利用“我所知道的”——而不是想象我了解殖民主义下的原住民认识论或原住民经验——作为原住民研究人员的盟友来工作。像我一样，从一个相对权力的位置上，我也可以通过“对我自己的暴民”讲话，为非殖民化方法论的项目做出一些小贡献。
This article raises the recurrent question whether non-indigenous researchers should attempt to research with/in Indigenous communities. If research is indeed a metaphor of colonization, then we have two choices: we have to learn to conduct research in ways that meet the needs of Indigenous communities and are non-exploitative, culturally appropriate and inclusive, or we need to relinquish our roles as researchers within Indigenous contexts and make way for Indigenous researchers. Both of these alternatives are complex. Hence in this article I trace my learning journey; a journey that has culminated in the realization that it is not my place to conduct research within Indigenous contexts, but that I can use ‘what I know’ – rather than imagining that I know about Indigenous epistemologies or Indigenous experiences under colonialism – to work as an ally with Indigenous researchers. Coming as I do, from a position of relative power, I can also contribute in some small way to the project of decolonizing methodologies by speaking ‘to my own mob’.