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Decolonising the decolonisers: Craig Fortier, ‘Unsettling methodologies / decolonizing movements’, Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 6, 1, 2017, pp. 20-36

16Aug17

Abstract: As movements for social justice within settler colonial states like Canada and the United States begin to centralize Indigenous struggles for sovereignty as foundational to liberation, non-Indigenous movement participants are challenged to contend with what it means to decolonize within their respective movements. This article explores the potential to engage in decolonizing research methodologies among non-Indigenous anti-authoritarian activist groups. Based on an ethnographic and qualitative research with activists, this paper highlights three core themes emerging out of an attempt to assert a decolonizing methodological approach to research in non- Indigenous activist communities, including: identity and belonging, accountability and consent, and responsibility and appropriation.


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