Collaborative Untangling of Positionality, Ownership, and Answerability as White Researchers in Indigenous Spaces

Autor/inn/en	Bennett, Catherine; Fitzpatrick-Harnish, Kate; Talbot, Brent
Titel	Collaborative Untangling of Positionality, Ownership, and Answerability as White Researchers in Indigenous Spaces
Quelle	In: International Journal of Music Education, 40 (2022) 4, S.628-641 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bennett, Catherine)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0255-7614
DOI	10.1177/02557614221087343
Schlagwörter	Colonialism; Researchers; Communities of Practice; Indigenous Populations; Whites; Educational Research; Indigenous Knowledge; Ethics; Models; Interpersonal Relationship; Cooperation; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kolonialismus; Researcher; Forscher; Community; Sinti und Roma; White; Weißer; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Ethik; Analogiemodell; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Co-operation; Kooperation; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	Decentering whiteness and decolonizing educational research is not a simple matter for researchers who may (initially) be unaware of their social locations. This paper begins by describing the three authors' individual work within indigenous populations and subsequently explores the impact of their critical journey together as a community of scholars working to decolonize their research practice. Following an overview of their individual stories, the authors share principles of ethical scholarly engagement within indigenous communities, particularly positionality, ownership, and answerability, that they hope will be valuable to others who may embark upon similar critically reflective journeys. Alongside each of these principles, they pose "unanswered questions" so as not to uphold their journey as a model, but rather to illuminate how this work is messy, challenging, eye-opening, unsettling, and ongoing. The authors conclude that it is the "methodological responsibility" of white scholars to do the ethical work to understand, untangle, and dismantle potentially harmful dispositions, orientations, and practices before engaging with indigenous communities, and suggest that such transformation may be most powerfully pursued in a purposeful and collaborative space. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01