JPG1828H: Place and Indigenous Research

This course invites students to consider what it means to conduct research on Indigenous land. It is intended not only for students working with Indigenous communities but for all students developing place-based research. We begin with Indigenous approaches to the politics, agency, relationality, and ethics of Place, followed by anti-colonial and Indigenous approaches to research, what Tuck and McKenzie (2015) call Indigenous informed critical place inquiry. Attentive to methodology, what Margaret Kovach (2009) describes as knowledge belief system and methods, students will reflect on their worldview, relations of accountability, and the uneven politics of knowledge production with and on Indigenous lands. Ultimately, students will consider what research/professional design and practice look like when Place, Indigenous sovereignty, and host/guest/treaty responsibilities are meaningfully considered. The first half of this seminar course will focus on Indigenous theories and frameworks of Place and coexistence, the second half on Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies and knowledge mobilization. Topics for discussion may include Place and Land; Indigenous jurisdiction and governance; researcher preparation and relational accountability; Indigenous research paradigms, ethics, and knowledge sovereignty; critical land-based methods; interpretive analysis, narrative, and knowledge mobilization.

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St. George