TY - JOUR
T1 - A cross-cultural research experience : developing an appropriate methodology that respectfully incorporates both indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge systems
AU - Goulding, Dorothy
AU - Steels, Brian
AU - McGarty, Craig
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper engages with the methodology being used within a research project auditing concerns and aspirations in an impoverished Indigenous community in North West Australia. The community is in the heart of booming resource industries and it symbolizes the many challenges and opportunities for contemporary Australia. The paper advances the notion that social scientific research with Indigenous communities can be positioned not just as the result of consultation with the communities but as the authorized product of those communities. Although this adds to the complexity of the governing forces that impact on researchers, it also affords new possibilities for meaningful social change. If research starts with the proposition that social scientific research with Indigenous communities can be about what communities want to know, and finding out what they have to say, we may make more progress than by asking what needs to be done.
AB - This paper engages with the methodology being used within a research project auditing concerns and aspirations in an impoverished Indigenous community in North West Australia. The community is in the heart of booming resource industries and it symbolizes the many challenges and opportunities for contemporary Australia. The paper advances the notion that social scientific research with Indigenous communities can be positioned not just as the result of consultation with the communities but as the authorized product of those communities. Although this adds to the complexity of the governing forces that impact on researchers, it also affords new possibilities for meaningful social change. If research starts with the proposition that social scientific research with Indigenous communities can be about what communities want to know, and finding out what they have to say, we may make more progress than by asking what needs to be done.
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:41878
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2015.1081960
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2015.1081960
M3 - Article
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 39
SP - 783
EP - 801
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 5
ER -