The lecture considers definitions and main principles of indigenous methodologies looking from an indigenous perspective. The main parts of the lecture are as follows: Theorizing, Concepts, Priorities, Power relations, and Research protocols that include Respect, Reciprocity, Reliability, and Relevance.
Jelena Porsanger is an internationally acclaimed Sámi scholar with Doctoral degree in the history of religion and Sámi research from the University of Tromsø and a degree of Licentiate in philosophy from the University of Helsinki. At present, she works at the Sámi museum (RiddoDuottarMuseat) in Kárášjohka. She is also Associated Researcher at the University of Helsinki and a member of the international editorial board of a peer-reviewed research journal AlterNative. She was Vice-Chancellor of Sámi University College in 2011–2015. She has previously worked as research director, senior researcher, and lecturer at various institutions. She was CEO of the Nordic Sami research Institute in Guovdageaidnu in 2007-2009 and senior researcher at the same institute in 2005–2007, Associate Professor at the Department of Sámi language and culture at the University of Tromsø in 1998–2005, and lecturer and researcher at the University of Helsinki before 1998. In the period 2007–2011 she was Chief Editor of a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary research journal, Sámi dieđalaš áigečála, which accepts research articles originally written in Sámi language. Her research interests include indigenous methodologies, indigenous religions, Sámi and indigenous oral tradition and knowledge, and source criticism from an indigenous perspective. Special areas of interest: indigenous research methodologies, traditional knowledge, research ethics, empowerment of Sámi communities, capacity building, development and application of indigenous approaches in research.
Suggested further reading:
Battiste, Marie (2000). Unfolding the Lessons of Colonization. – Marie Battiste (ed.), Reclaiming Indigenous Voices and Vision. Vancouver, Toronto 2000: UCB-Press.
Bishop, R. Bishop, Russell & Ted Glynn (1999). Culture Counts: Changing Power Relations in Education. Palmerston North, N.Z.: Dunmore Press.
Black, Taiarahia (2014). Enhancing Mātauranga Māori and Global indigenous knowledge. – Mātauranga Māori and World Indigenous Knowledge. NZQA: New Zealand Qualification Authority. New Zealand, Wellington, pp. 5–10 http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/Maori/Te-Rautaki-Maori/Publications/Enhancing- Mtauranga-Mori-and-Global-Indigenous-Knowledge.pdf
Cronin, Darryl & Jebakumar Lydia (2011). Indigenous research and the academy. SPRC NEWSLETTER November, No 109. Australia
Denzin Norman K. & Lincoln, Yvonna S. & Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (2008). Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage.
Keskitalo, Alf Isak. (1974, 1994). Research as an interethnic relation. Dieđut 1994: 7, 35–43. Kautokeino: The Nordic Sami Institute.
Paulani Louis, Renee (2006) Can You Here us Now? Voices from the Margin: Using Indigenous Methodologies in Geographic Research. Geographic Research, June 2007, 45 (2): 130−139.
Porsanger, Jelena (2010) Self-determination and indigenous research: capacity building on our own terms. Tauli-Corpuz V, Enkiwe-Abayao L, de Chavez R, Guillao JA (eds.) Towards an alternative development paradigm: indigenous peoples’ self- determined development. Tebtebba Foundation: Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education/Valley Printing Specialist, Baguio City, pp. 433–446
Porsanger, Jelena (2014) Enhancing indigenous distinctiveness through research. Taiarhia Black (ed.) Mātauranga Māori and world indigenous knowledge. NZQA: New Zealand Qualification Authority, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 196–208
Porsanger, Jelena (2017) Building Sámi language higher education: The case of Sámi University of Applied Sciences. The Handbook of Indigenous Education, Section “Transforming Education: Multiple Sites of Struggle”. Elizabeth McKinley & Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Eds.). Springer Publishing Company. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1839- 8_40-1
Rigney, Lester-Irabinna. 1999. Internationalization of an indigenous anticolonial cultural critique of research methodologies. Wicazo Sa Review, Fall 1999, 14: 2, 109– 122. University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1409555
Smith, Graham Hingangaroa (2003). (AFN Convention, Anchorage, Oct 2003. http://ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/Articles/ GrahamSmith/index.html.
Smith, Graham Hingangaroa (2015) Equity as critical praxis: The self-development of Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi. Michael A. Petters & Tina Besley (eds.) Paulo Freire: The global legacy. (Studies in the postmodern theory of education, Vol 500, pp. 55–77). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (1999, 2012) Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples (2nd ed.). London, England: Zed Books.
Tuck, Eve (2013) Decolonizing Methodologies 15 years later. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples Vol 9, issue 4, pp. 365–372.
Organizer: MDV-3050 Theory and Method, Media- and Documentation Studies, Dept. of Language and Culture, HSL-faculty, UiT.