Refusal in research : an anticolonial feminist stance to history writing and archiving on stolen land / Dr. J.J Ghaddar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghaddar, J.J, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library and Archives Canada.

Imperialism--Canada--Historiography.

Imperialism.

Decolonization--Canada.

Decolonization.

Feminism--Canada--Historiography.

Feminism.

Historiography--Canada.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

Ghaddar 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, Refusal in Research: Rewriting Disciplinary Histories and Master Narratives of Canadian Archives and Archiving, J. J. Ghaddar provides an anticolonial rewriting of the history of Canada's state archives, Library & Archives Canada (LAC), and the concept of "total archives" within the Canadian archival profession, said to characterize LAC's approach for the first century after its founding. The case covers a historical period from the early 19th century of increasing settler self-governance in British North America to the establishment of the Canadian state at the turn of the 20th century, and from the post-World War II period of heightened nationalism to the recent decades of multiculturalism and neoliberalism. The author reads the same primary and secondary sources as the many previous racist publications about this history, but with the crucial difference of adopting refusal as a stance augmenting her historical methods and antiracist feminist frameworks. Ghaddar argues for the importance of building into the research process a skepticism and caution in approaching secondary sources about colonial states like Canada written from a settler perspective, including the claim in such sources that their historical accounts are proved through the use of primary sources. The 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.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

1-5296-9141-9

9781529691412

OCLC:

1428169793