This Handbook serves as a guide to help Western researchers understand the new and reconfigured territories they might wish to explore. Presents a candid conversation between indigenous and nonindigenous discourses.Explores critical theory and action theory, and their hybrid discourses: PAR, feminism, action research, social constructivism, ethnodrama, community action research, poetics.Offers an historical representation of critical theory, critical pedagogy, and indigenous discourse.Walter Mignolo included this book in his. She mentions that for indigenous peoples it is important to resist being thrown in with every other minority group by making claims based on prior rights. Covers the history of critical and indigenous theory and how it came to inform and impact qualitative research Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s decolonial methodology is centered around the politics of sovereignty and self-determination for indigenous peoples.Provides a comprehensive body of work that represents the state of the art for critical methodologies and indigenous discourses.Includes a 'Who's Who' of educators and researchers in critical methodologies.Contains global examples including South African, Hawaiian, Maori, Central African and Islamic ones.Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith explore in depth some of the newer formulations of critical theories and many indigenous perspectives, and seek to make transparent the linkages between the two. The Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies is the only handbook to make connections regarding many of the perspectives of the 'new' critical theorists and emerging indigenous methodologies.īuilt on the foundation of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, the Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies extends beyond the investigation of qualitative inquiry itself to explore the indigenous and nonindigenous voices that inform research, policy, politics, and social justice.

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