Ngeri as Māori Indigenous knowledge production / Tania C. Tautari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tautari, Tania C., author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth, Māori--New Zealand.

Youth, Māori.

Criminal behavior--New Zealand.

Criminal behavior.

Group identity--New Zealand.

Group identity.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

In 2016, I undertook a transdisciplinary PhD study in New Zealand to understand more about Indigenous Māori youth apprehended for serious criminal youth offending. Māori as the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand represent 17.4% of the total population. Despite these relatively small statistics, Māori adolescents (14-16 years old) are over-represented (63%) of New Zealand youth court charges for serious offences. Following Māori research methodologies, which were founded on kaupapa Māori theory and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge), the PhD investigated cultural identity as a resilience mechanism to reduce Māori youth offending. This case study discusses how the PhD employed ngeri, a traditional type of Māori haka (a traditional war dance with shouted words and no set actions) as a part of the methodological strategy to convey key inherent messages from the findings. Ngeri were deliberately crafted to center an Indigenous approach to knowledge production and research analysis, to challenge the abhorrent Māori youth offending statistics. Challenging deep-seated Western notions of what counts as "valid knowledge" and "robust research methodologies," ngeri dismantle colonial constructions of knowledge production. This case study will unpack the ethical considerations and the practical process behind writing the two ngeri in the PhD. The case study will highlight how Indigenous ways of transmitting knowledge, whether through ceremony, song, chants, rituals, war dances, poetry or story-telling, can be a powerful tool for indigenizing research knowledge production.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8938-4

9781529689389

OCLC:

1428169250