SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participant Observation, Research, Internal Validity
17 Oct 2016
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Researchers are people and do not exist outside of the social worlds and web of social relations they attempt to describe and explain. Researchers bring their social locations, values assumptions, beliefs to the research. Research involves making decisions; these decisions are not neutral. Another area that illustrates the political nature of research is the institutional infrastructure related to it. People who control the funding have tons of control of what is being researched and studied. We have to acknowledge the political influence on the outcomes. Indigenous people [ ] have experienced unrelenting research of a profoundly exploitative nature (smith. Research has been complicit in colonization, racialization, othering, dehumanizing, marginalization. Research is very much a part of the colonial project. Denying indigenous peoples agency as researches and knowledge holders. What are the impacts on the way. Researchers analyze, interpret and report data without consent, approval, review or input by indigenous participants. Researchers that is not relevant to indigenous priorities and needs.
