Conversations on sexuality : being trauma informed as a decolonial contribution to indigenous research / Deanne L. Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Deanne L., author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualitative research.

Indigenous women--Crimes against.

Indigenous women.

Decolonization.

Sex crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

While conducting my qualitative doctoral research, "Indigenous women at the heart: An imagining of Indigenous decolonial sexualities," I adjusted my training for conducting semistructured interviews from a sociological perspective to truly center care rooted in Indigenous understanding for 40 Indigenous women in an urban environment through the interview process. Despite my conscious choice not to center stories and personal experiences of sexual violence, I accepted that my intention to have conversations about a new sexual imaginary based in native women's perspectives would not be obtainable. The women repeatedly redirected the conversation by disclosing experiences with sexual violence with any prompt based on a sexual nature. This refusal of my intended framing is based on the harsh realities of high rates of sexual violence toward native women that required me to change my overall research aim, which was to propose a decolonial sexual imaginary based on native women's visions. As someone trained across disciplines (sociology and ethnic studies/Native American and Indigenous studies), I changed course by deeply engaging Indigenous research methodology and understandings rooted in Indigenous principles of relationality.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8353-X

9781529683530

OCLC:

1428169143