Researcher's refusals : ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in qualitative research : interviews on the Thailand-Myanmar border / Nisha Toomey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toomey, Nisha, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualitative research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Qualitative research.

Indigenous peoples--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Indigenous peoples.

Interviewing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

Toomey describes their application of refusal, an Indigenous research stance first articulated in the work of Kahnawà:ke (Mohawk) scholar Audra Simpson, and further elaborated by Indigenous feminists in Turtle Island (North America), notably Sandy Grande and Eve Tuck, along with collaborators, Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and K. Wayne Yang. Grounded in Indigenous critiques of epistemic violence and calls to decolonize research, as in the work of Linda Tuhiwai Smith, refusal also draws on and is conversant with a broad range of critical literatures and debates from the Black Radical Tradition, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and Black and Third World feminisms. In the case, Researcher's refusals: Ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in qualitative research: Interviews on the Thailand-Myanmar border, Nisha Toomey describes her interview process with a group of 33 humanitarian workers for a study tracing how settler colonialism and white supremacy have shaped the activities of International Nongovernmental Organizations. Toomey argues for an orientation toward research that is highly skeptical and trepidatious, and builds into research questions a critique of the academy and its potential for harm. To do so, she included questions about the usefulness of the specific research project, and of academic research in general and its potential to make change (or not). Participants offered guidelines for how to move toward research practices that might more effectively benefit communities. This case study illustrates key aspects of refusal as a concept and research stance that is employed within the western academy to sidestep its assimilationist and extractive colonial logics, and create room to think about and articulate what knowledge will or will not be shared, and why.

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ISBN:

1-5296-9053-6

9781529690538

OCLC:

1428169121