Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies

本土和非殖民定量方法

• 批准号: DH-2022-00313
• 负责人: Liboiron, Max
• 金额: $ 7.27万
• 依托单位: Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Horizons
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754744
• 关键词: Indigenous; decolonial; quantitative; methodologies

Despite calls to decolonize and Indigenize science, nearly all work on decolonizing methodology has been on qualitative research. At the same time, a record number of Indigenous people are earning PhDs in STEM fields. Our Indigenous research team will bring principles of decolonizing methodologies into quantitative methods used in STEM, from environmental monitoring to genetic research. The project team is characterized by researchers with an interdisciplinary fluency in Indigenous cosmologies and methodologies (research approaches, ethics, and values) as well as scientific quantitative research methods (research tools and techniques).Collaborating through regular virtual meetings and student lab exchanges, we will use a case-study approach to analyze, revise, and test methods that we use regularly in our existing research projects so they have tighter fits with Indigenous values (such as humility and reciprocity), ethics/axiologies (such as relations-first and Indigenous sovereignty) and Indigenous methodological principles (such as storytelling and remembering). We anticipate that some aspects of each method or tool will remain similar to how we have inherited it, while other aspects will change significantly. For example, Palawa researcher Maggie Walters has shown how aggregating data so they align with Indigenous geographies, rather than settler state borders, radically changes research findings. While many researchers, government employees, and members of the public are committed to truth and reconciliation, their question, and ours, is how? What does data collection, cleaning and management look like when it aligns with Indigenous cosmologies? What kind of data aggregation and which statistical models are best suited to Indigenous community needs and goals? What happens to citations, measurement, and analysis when it is part of a decolonial or Indigenous approach?Our collaboration across five Indigenous-led labs in Canada and the United States will not only change how our own research is done and create a strong cohort of students trained in innovative yet traditional methodologies, but will also result in an edited "Handbook of Indigenous and Decolonial Quantitative Methodologies," open-access protocols for conducting methods, teaching modules so others can use our innovations in their own work, and the movement of Indigenous methodologies into normal science through integration into our ongoing projects and publications.

尽管有人呼吁科学非殖民化和本土化，但几乎所有关于非殖民化方法的工作都是定性研究。与此同时，创纪录数量的土著人正在STEM领域获得博士学位。我们的土著研究团队将把非殖民化方法的原则纳入STEM中使用的定量方法，从环境监测到遗传研究。该项目团队的特点是研究人员在土著宇宙学和方法学方面具有跨学科的流利性（研究方法，伦理和价值观）以及科学的定量研究方法（研究工具和技术）。通过定期的虚拟会议和学生实验室交流合作，我们将使用案例研究的方法来分析，修改，我们在现有的研究项目中经常使用的测试方法，使它们更符合土著价值观（如谦卑和互惠），伦理学/价值观（如关系第一和土著主权）和土著方法论原则（如讲故事和记忆）。我们预计，每种方法或工具的某些方面将与我们继承的方式保持相似，而其他方面将发生重大变化。例如，Palawa的研究人员Maggie Walters已经展示了如何汇总数据，使其与土著地理位置相一致，而不是与定居者的国家边界相一致，从而从根本上改变了研究结果。虽然许多研究人员、政府雇员和公众都致力于真相与和解，但他们和我们的问题是，如何做到这一点？当数据收集、清理和管理与原住民宇宙观保持一致时，它会是什么样子？什么样的数据汇总以及哪些统计模型最适合土著社区的需求和目标？当引用、测量和分析是非殖民地或土著方法的一部分时，会发生什么？我们在加拿大和美国的五个土著领导的实验室的合作不仅将改变我们自己的研究是如何完成的，并创造了一个强大的学生群体在创新的传统方法培训，但也将导致编辑“土著和非殖民地量化方法手册”，开放获取协议进行方法，教学模块，使其他人可以在自己的工作中使用我们的创新，以及通过整合到我们正在进行的项目和出版物中，将土著方法纳入正常科学。