![]() ![]() Smith has intended this book to serve as a guide mainly for Indigenous researchers in that it addresses the fact that generally the academic environment and the literature on research practices are alien and irrelevant to the particularities of the experiences of Indigenous researchers. Moreover, its implications reach far beyond this debate to offer readers an eye-opening critique of Western hegemony over the processes that define, shape, and name the world. This book is an extremely important addition to recent debates over the ethics of research in Indigenous communities. Linda Tuhiwai Smith is associate professor and director of the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. Smith, introduction to Decolonizing Methodologies ![]() ![]() It has not been written as a technical book about research for people who talk the language of research, but as a book which situates research in a much larger historical, political and cultural context and then examines its critical nature within those dynamics. In a decolonizing framework, deconstruction is part of a much larger intent. ![]() This is a book which attempts to do something more than deconstructing Western scholarship simply by our own retelling, or by sharing indigenous horror stories about research. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. ![]()
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