The Tipuna Project: Intergenerational Healing, Settler Accountability and Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Aotearoa

Tipuna 项目：新西兰的代际疗愈、定居者责任和非殖民化参与行动研究

• 批准号: AH/X008223/1
• 负责人: Rachel Liebert
• 金额: $ 39.59万
• 依托单位: University of East London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX008223%2F1
• 关键词: Tipuna; Project; Intergenerational; Healing; Settler

Coloniality is structured by a hierarchy of knowers, knowing and knowledge that violently denigrates Indigenous ways of being in the world. This hierarchy is premised on a figure-cum-standard of the 'human' as one who is separate from flesh, past and cosmos. Countering it therefore requires counter-practices that open-up multiple other forms of being human - including in research, which largely assumes and reproduces the colonial figure of the human even when done in the name of 'decolonisation'. Two areas of contemporary kaupapa Maori (KM) scholarship hold promise for such counter-practices: (1) an inspirited 'wairua approach' that attends to expressions of the unseen, including ancestors, in research; and (2) intergenerational trauma praxes that approach the harms caused to colonised or enslaved ancestors as inheritable 'soul wounds' healable through inspirited and embodied practices. The successful uptake of these practices within specialist services and international social movements points also to their potential for people with settler ancestors - often either bypassed in decolonial initiatives or engaged through a cognitive approach that again assumes the colonial figure of the 'human' - reproducing hierarchies and triggering 'White fragility'. The Tipuna ('Ancestor') Project (TTP) is a multidisciplinary Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaboration based in Aotearoa ('New Zealand') aiming to innovate and evaluate research practices that include Indigenous and settler ancestors in order to counter (1) the denigration of Indigenous ways of knowing/being, (2) the historically traumatic nature of the research space for Indigenous peoples and (3) low settler accountability, before translating these counter-practices into local and international decolonising initiatives more broadly. Using participatory action research (PAR) as both a methodology and a case study, we ask: What are the decolonial possibilities and complexities of including ancestors as co-researchers in PAR? Co-designed through 3.5 years of dialogue, TTP is shaped by a central value of KM, structured by the vision of a nationwide Indigenous-led movement, and supported by six Indigenous networks (representing over 5000 Maori). A co-researcher collective of 5 Indigenous and 5 non-Indigenous decolonial practitioners and their ancestors will conduct a three year, three-phase project to: (1) Titiro ('Look'), innovate ancestral research practices through participant observation with three ancestral experts; (2) Whakarongo ('Listen'), evaluate these counter-practices through one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous bespoke PAR project; and (3) Korero ('Speak'), translate these for decolonial initiatives more broadly through a 7-day multimedia co-creative laboratory of public experimentation. This partnership of Indigenous and non-Indigenous methods will be grounded in the KM methodology of wananga (collective, non-binary 'wise knowledge-transmission' practices/spaces) and woven with the KM method of whitiwhiti korero (local and international 'spiral dialogues'), ensuring the project itself enacts commitments to Indigenous sovereignty, community accountability and global struggles.Refusing the colonial separation of knowing/being, TTP has some methods as outputs and shares knowledge throughout - both enabling us to be 'response-able' and reciprocal. Thus, in addition to any outputs arising from the two bespoke PAR projects, the above will be accompanied by three free community events, a quarterly student zui (online hui/'gathering') between UK and Aotearoa universities, a 'thought space' wananga (for accelerating the translation of knowledge upstream to agents of the settler-colonial state) and a public website/blog, as well as co-producing academic and community presentations, publications and networks. The reflexive and dialogic nature of these diverse, multimodal outputs will continually strengthen our process, maximising research integrity and impact.

殖民主义是由知识者、知识和知识的等级制度构成的，这种等级制度暴力地诋毁土著人在世界上的生存方式。这种等级制度是建立在一个“人”的数字和标准上的，因为人是与肉体、过去和宇宙分离的。因此，对抗它需要反实践，开辟多种其他形式的人类-包括在研究中，这在很大程度上假设和再现了人类的殖民形象，即使是以“非殖民化”的名义进行的。当代kaupapa毛利人（KM）奖学金的两个领域为这种反做法提供了希望：（1）一种受启发的“wairua方法”，在研究中关注看不见的表达，包括祖先;（2）代际创伤实践，将对殖民或奴役祖先造成的伤害作为可通过受启发和具体实践治愈的可继承的“灵魂创伤”。这些做法在专业服务和国际社会运动中的成功吸收也表明了它们对具有定居者祖先的人的潜力-通常要么被非殖民化倡议所忽视，要么通过认知方法参与，再次假设“人类”的殖民形象-复制等级制度并引发“白色脆弱性”。蒂普纳酒店（“祖先”）项目（TTP）是一个多学科的土著和非土著合作，总部设在奥特亚罗瓦（“新西兰”）旨在创新和评估包括土著和定居者祖先的研究做法，以应对（1）对土著认识/存在方式的诋毁，（2）土著人民研究空间的历史创伤性质，以及（3）定居者问责制度低，然后再将这些反做法转化为更广泛的地方和国际非殖民化倡议。使用参与式行动研究（PAR）作为一种方法和案例研究，我们问：什么是非殖民化的可能性和复杂性，包括在PAR的共同研究人员的祖先？通过3.5年的对话共同设计，TTP是由知识管理的核心价值塑造的，由全国土著领导的运动的愿景构成，并得到六个土著网络（代表5000多名毛利人）的支持。一个由5名土著和5名非土著非殖民地实践者及其祖先组成的共同研究者集体将开展一个为期三年、分三个阶段的项目，以便：（1）Titiro（“看”），通过与三名祖先专家的参与观察，创新祖先的研究做法;（2）Whakarongo（“倾听”），通过一个土著和一个非土著定制的PAR项目评估这些反做法;和（3）Korero（“说话”），通过为期7天的公共实验多媒体联合创意实验室，将这些转化为更广泛的非殖民化倡议。这种土著和非土著方法的伙伴关系将以wananga的知识管理方法为基础（集体的，非二元的“明智的知识传播”实践/空间），并与知识管理方法的whitiwhiti korero编织（当地和国际的“螺旋对话”），确保项目本身制定对土著主权，社区责任和全球斗争的承诺。拒绝知识/存在的殖民分离，TTP有一些方法作为输出，并在整个过程中分享知识-这两者都使我们能够“响应”和互惠。因此，除了两个定制PAR项目产生的任何产出外，上述项目还将伴随着三个免费的社区活动，一个季度的学生zui（在线hui/'聚会'）英国和奥特亚罗瓦大学之间，一个'思想空间' wananga（以加速将知识上游转化给殖民定居国家的代理人）和一个公共网站/博客，以及共同制作学术和社区报告，出版物和网络。这些多样化的多模态输出的自反性和对话性将不断加强我们的过程，最大限度地提高研究的完整性和影响力。