Research with and for Indigenous peoples : lessons from the Guarani-Kaiowa of South America / Antonio A. Ioris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ioris, Antonio Augusto Rossotto, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caingua Indians--Research--Brazil.

Caingua Indians.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects--Brazil.

Research.

Participant observation--Brazil.

Participant observation.

Social justice--Research--Brazil.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

The case study discusses important ethical, methodologic, and interpretative questions that should be considered when doing participatory research involving marginalized social groups and, in particular, Indigenous peoples. The condition and the experience of Indigenous peoples-such as the Guarani-Kaiowa in Brazil, who have suffered the terrible consequences of land grabbing and structural racism-have major consequences for the preparation and implementation of research projects. The methodologic approach employed to do research with and for Indigenous peoples is contingent and combined ethnography, which integrates opportunities to accumulate information, learn together, and make sense of deeply politicized processes that produce lived and contested spaces. This is a qualitative research strategy that aims at knowing the world from a standpoint of deeply politicized sociospatial relations and is predicated on decolonization and the pursuit of restoration and justice in the Global North and the Global South. The whole process is iterative and nonlinear, which means that things are recorded as they are observed during the engagement with the Indigenous communities, but further participation benefits from the cumulative joint learning and leads to revisiting and rethinking what is being interpreted. A contingent and combined ethnography tries to relate, working with Indigenous participants and taking interpretation as translation, the more immediate experiences with the totality of space, time, and politics. It is an engaged, committed ethnography that questions conventional academic research, typically forged through power relations that continue the project of colonialism, and seeks more critical understandings of the causes and consequences of problems that evolve at multiple and interrelated scales of interaction.

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ISBN:

1-0719-4659-5

9781071946596

OCLC:

1428169561