With Decolonizing Methodologies, Linda Tuhiwai Smith made us rethink the relationship between scholarly research and the legacies of colonialism, and to confront the reality that, for the colonized, such research was often inextricably bound up with memories of exploitation. Offering a visionary new ‘decolonizing’ approach to research methodology, her book has continued to inspire generations of decolonial and indigenous scholars.
This revised and expanded new edition demonstrates the continued importance of Tuhiwai Smith’s work to today’s struggles, including the growing movement to decolonize education and the university curriculum. It also features contributions from both new and established indigenous scholars on what a decolonizing approach means for both the present and future of academic research, and provides practical examples of how decolonial and indigenous methodologies have been fruitfully applied to recent research projects. Decolonizing Methodologies remains a definitive work in the ongoing struggle to reclaim indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Third Edition
Foreword
Introduction
1. Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory
2. Research through Imperial Eyes
3. Colonizing Knowledges
4. Research Adventures on Indigenous Land
5. Notes from Down Under
6. The Indigenous People's Project: Setting a New Agenda
7. Articulating an Indigenous Research Agenda
8. Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects
9. Responding to the Imperatives of an Indigenous Agenda: A Case Study of Maori
10. Towards Developing Indigenous Methodologies: Kaupapa Maori Research
11. Choosing the Margins: The Role of Research in Indigenous Struggles for Social Justice
12. Getting the Story Right, Telling the Story Well: Indigenous Activism, Indigenous Research
Conclusion: A Personal Journey
Twenty Further Indigenous Projects
Poems
Index
About the Author :
Linda Tuhiwai is Vice-Chancellor with responsibilities for Maori development at the University of Waikato, as well as Dean of the University's School of Maori and Pacific Development, New Zealand. Her other books include the co-edited collections Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology (Zed 2019) and Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education (2018).
Review :
'A landmark in the process not only of decolonizing methodology, but of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge and ways of knowing.'
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
'Linda Tuhiwai Smith's trail-blazing book is one of the greatest contributions towards instilling pride and dignity in indigenous peoples all over the world.'
Harald Gaski, University of Tromsø, Norway.
'This second edition will secure and expand the place of this book as a classic in the field of indigenous methodologies.'
Patti Lather, Ohio State University
'Persuasive, evocative, and enduring.'
Margaret Kovach, University of Saskatchewan
'Equips indigenous scholars with a series of methodological and political strategies for developing research that is enabling and empowering.'
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Indigenous Studies Research Network, Queensland University of Technology
'A text of broad intellectual reach and political depth, this book transformed the fields of educational research and critical epistemology.'
Michelle Fine, City University New York
