Bridging Indigenous and Western Methods in Social Science Research

Quinn, Ashley

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“…Whilst the researchers maintain influence over the research design and interpretation, interviews were sought as a method to best coconstruct the findings and the theory posited with participants to explain the central research question (Charmaz, 2006;Metelski et al, 2021). This approach, in tandem with a constructionist grounded theory (CGT) method, was used to maintain a strength-based approach to the research (Coghlan & Brydon-Miller, 2014), where Indigenous participants' direct expertise, experiences and perspectives concerning successful Indigenous employment outcomes are central to the research findings (Charmaz, 2000;Quinn, 2022). CGT is an adaptation of the original concept of grounded theory posited by Glaser and Strauss (1967), coined by Charmaz (2000Charmaz ( , 2006.…”

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“…This approach does not suit some research contexts, as it infers that an objective reality can be drawn from qualitative data, ignoring the historical, social and situational conditions in which the research is located in (such as may be identified within a literature review), and similarly ignoring the role of the researcher/researchers and their influence on the research (Charmaz, 2017). CGT (and grounded theory more broadly) has been utilised within several Indigenous research contexts and in conjunction with Indigenous research methodologies (Bainbridge et al, 2013;Beaufils, 2022;Quinn, 2022;Wilson et al, 2022). CGT is utilised to coconstruct a theory with participants through their data, whilst still acknowledging that the development of the research and the undertaking of the analysis is still carried out by the researcher (who is informed by their own perspectives and biases; Charmaz, 2006;Chun Tie et al, 2019;Metelski et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…CGT is utilised to coconstruct a theory with participants through their data, whilst still acknowledging that the development of the research and the undertaking of the analysis is still carried out by the researcher (who is informed by their own perspectives and biases; Charmaz, 2006;Chun Tie et al, 2019;Metelski et al, 2021). Quinn (2022) argues that this coconstruction of knowledge "is congruent with Indigenous methodologies of reciprocity and authentic relationship building" (p. 4). It is for these reasons a CGT approach was utilised in this research.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“It's Self‐Determination. Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes

Eva,

Harris,

Bodle

et al. 2023

Aust J Social Issues

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Previous research demonstrates that businesses that are Indigenous‐owned are far more likely to employ Indigenous people than non‐Indigenous‐owned businesses (Hunter, 2015, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 26, 631). The majority of the literature on Indigenous employment uses a deficit discourse, describing factors that prevent or exclude Indigenous people from non‐Indigenous‐owned organisations. There is markedly less literature using a strength‐based approach, detailing how Indigenous‐owned businesses create workplaces without barriers to Indigenous employment. Through 32 semistructured interviews with Indigenous business owners, managers, and Indigenous employees of Indigenous‐owned businesses, this paper provides insights into how participants' businesses create workplaces that are more supportive of, and conducive to, Indigenous employment. This paper finds that Indigenous approaches to governance inform an organisational level of cultural competence, which creates tailored and specific practices that support better Indigenous employment outcomes. This resonates with the concept of Indigenous ways of “knowing, being, and doing,” and how this framework encompasses participants' approaches to business operations. In the light of increasing public and private policy commitments to improve Indigenous employment outcomes, it is imperative that the Indigenous business sector's best practice inform said policies, given its successes. However, inherent in these findings are broader discussions into more systemic and societal issues that go beyond workplace policy.

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“It's Self‐Determination. Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes

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Harris,

Bodle

et al. 2023

Aust J Social Issues

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“…Accordingly, the methodological challenges of performing research and co-creating theory with members of the surf tribe who choose non-participation or are desperate to have their voices and epistemologies authentically represented are comparable with the anxieties described by advocates of IRM (Drawson et al, 2017; Nakhid-Chatoor, et al, 2018; Quinn, 2022; Wilson, 2001). Sharing and contextualizing the emotional response, such as the depth of anger and despair, emerging from performances of talk-story justifies and demonstrates the benefits of IRM as the innovative and inclusive methodological shift sought by lisahunter, Olive, Roy, and Wheaton due to the relational knowledge and accountability it demands.…”

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Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge

Cook

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article aims to broaden joint performances of talk-story, a form of Indigenous Research Methodology, to give voice to non-indigenous participants who presuppose misrepresentation in qualitative research. Indigenous Research Methodologies emerged to challenge axiological concerns with Western Research Methodologies, which participants perceive to disregard, oppress, and exploit those they claim to represent. Founded on the principle of relational accountability, Indigenous Research Methodologies place learning co-created knowledges and social epistemologies at the center of the study, promoting the publication of authentic explanations and representations that empower participants. In response to grounded theories emerging from talk-story with non-indigenous members of the global surfing tribe, describing their anger and powerlessness against cultural studies researchers who deceive and misrepresent them in a perceived culture war, I explain how non-indigenous researchers and disempowered populations can jointly perform talk-story to co-create depictions that survive participant scrutiny. However, I caution that influential gatekeepers will execute Western a priori assertions and cultural imperialism to silence opposing voices and epistemologies empowered by talk-story. Nonetheless, my article aims to contribute towards promoting performances of talk-story methodology by explaining how an indigenous paradigm enables analytical processes to be shared, thus exposing insights participants perceive to be silenced by Western Research Methodologies.

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“…These scholars came from a range of disciplinary backgrounds – education (Karen Martin-Booran Mirraboopa, Margaret Kovach, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann); sociology (Eva Marie Garoutte); Indigenous and feminist studies (Aileen Moreton Robinson); law (Irene Watson); and health (Lynn Lavallée, Bronwyn Fredericks, Denise Wilson, Alayne Mikahere-Hall and Juanita Sherwood). Indigenist research always begins from a principle of self-determination and is underpinned by “ceremony, respect, authentic engagement, critical reflexivity, reciprocity, relationality and responsibility” (Quinn, 2022, p. 2). Indigenist research has an entirely different epistemological and ontological foundation to all Western research traditions.…”

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Dissonance, Disagreement, Difference: Challenging Thematic Consensus to Decolonise Grounded Theory

McGaw,

Vance

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Over the past two decades researchers have been exploring new hybrid methodologies to decolonise Indigenous mental health research. Grounded Theory with Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR), often using Indigenist methods, is the most common. Grounded Theory’s claim to rigour is its transparent, organised process of sifting and theme finding, while CPAR respects Indigenous self-determination and Indigenous ways of knowing doing and being, involving Indigenous research participants in all stages of the research from data collection to analysis. On the surface it would seem to be the ideal methodological approach to navigate the cultural divide. However, this article will argue that Grounded Theory’s inherent weakness is in the process of thematic analysis, which uses consensus during the analysis phase to find dominant themes. Drawing on the social systems theory of Niklas Luhmann and the political theory of Chantal Mouffe, this article will argue for a group process of “agonistic pluralism” instead. Searching for shared truths has a tendency to smooth out differences. The article proposes an approach for configuring a research team and conducting team analysis that struggles with, and accounts for, dissonances, disagreements and differences. Furthermore, it argues these differences should be recorded as important findings along with agreed themes. The approach has been developed to explore community perspectives on the relationship between culture and health, and in turn, to develop culturally appropriate mental health therapies for First Nations young people within a Western paediatric hospital.

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Bridging Indigenous and Western Methods in Social Science Research

Cited by 8 publications

References 64 publications

“It's Self‐Determination. Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes

“It's Self‐Determination. Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes

Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge

Dissonance, Disagreement, Difference: Challenging Thematic Consensus to Decolonise Grounded Theory

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