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RESEARCH AS RESISTANCE: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches Leslie Brown and Susan Strega, eds. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2005; 303 pp. This edited collection is a lively and grounded compilation that disrupts many of the frameworks and methodologies that organize and authorize the research endeavour. Books on qualitative research often lay out the mechanics of research without attending to their political currency, while other offerings debate the theoretical or political potential of particular perspectives without locating them in actual projects. This collection, however, interrogates specific methods employed in research projects (institutional ethnography, narrative autobiography, storytelling, participatory action research) in a variety of locations/sites (disability, Aboriginal, Queer, youth from care) as political acts. In addition, each chapter engages with and challenges the ontological and epistemological assumptions that underlie dominant forms of knowledge making. Research from "the margins" is privileged here, in the authors' various elucidations of subjugated knowledge(s), the role of reflexivity, the politics of location, and subjectivity. Each chapter provides a different critique of the racialized and gendered foundation of Enlightenment epistemologies. The dangerous effects and limitations of positivist research and the interpretive stance in qualitative research are set against the authors' elaboration of critical, Indigenous, and anti-oppressive approaches to knowledge production. Theoretical chapters are interwoven with sections devoted to the more descriptive accounts of specific research projects. This arrangement encourages the reader to move from theory to praxis in ways intended by the editors. Indeed, that is the point. Each decision we make as researchers is tied to a theoretical construct/ ideology that illuminates how we know what we know. Efforts to make these power relations a central feature of knowledge-making are completely necessary to Research as Resistance. Yet, as this collection demonstrates, there are multiple and complex issues at work in the implementation of emancipatory research. By including critical, Indigenous, and anti-oppressive approaches in this edition, one sees the tensions that exist between their different formulations of location, storytelling, subjectivity, authenticity, and complicity. Anti-oppressive theories, research, and practices are outlined in three chapters. Moosa-Mitha argues that anti-oppressive theories are best understood in contrast to liberalism, Marxism, white feminism, and postmodernism. Her extensive argument shows how anti-oppressive theories are difference-centred and critical, and akin to social identity theories. She contends that anti-oppressive theories are interested in knowledge-making as dialogical, partial, situated, and subjugated. Potts and Brown similarly turn their attention to anti-oppressive approaches yet detail the principles and actions required to become an anti-oppressive researcher. They lay out how these approaches put into action and influence the way we ask questions, collect data, create meaning, and reclaim notions of validity and reliability in the social sciences. One can see how these principles are applied in a chapter on participatory action research with youth from care. Rutman, Hubberstey, Barlow and Brown outline the funding, institutional, and personal challenges of PAR, and emphasize the need to continuously review the principles of anti-oppressive practice at an individual/team level. These chapters are each enriched by the presence of the others, allowing readers to see how antioppressive ontologies and practice inform one another. Scholars similarly expound upon the theoretical frameworks and methodologies of Indigenous research. Margaret Kovack describes the emancipatory potential of Indigenous epistemologies (knowledge as fluid, experiential, generational, alive, verb-based, intuitive) and methodologies (i. …

RESEARCH AS RESISTANCE: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches

Objective
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) is a multifaceted concept that acknowledges that a person's wellbeing is determined by a range of inter-related domains: body, mind and emotions, family and kinship, community, culture, Country, and spirituality. This paper explores the meaning of these seven domains of SEWB.

Method
A thematic analysis of qualitative data obtained from the National Empowerment Project (NEP) was conducted, along with a literature review of each domain.

Results
Findings from the NEP, together with relevant literature, indicate that implementing strategies that focus on strengthening SEWB is important for individual, family, and community wellbeing. Addressing the social determinants of Indigenous disadvantage is also shown to have an important role in strengthening the SEWB of individuals, families, and communities.

Conclusion
It is important for all practitioners and policymakers involved with improving Indigenous health to recognise the seven inter-related domains of SEWB and to acknowledge and support people in addressing the social determinants of wellbeing.

Decolonising Psychology: Validating Social and Emotional Wellbeing

In this section, recent books applicable to the broad field of program evaluation are reviewed. In most cases, a single book will be considered in a review, but in some instances, multiple books may be jointly reviewed to illuminate similarities and differences in intent, philosophy, and usefulness. In most cases, a single review will be commissioned for each book. Two or more reviews may be commissioned for books judged by the Editor and/or Book Review Editor to be especially noteworthy works in evaluation. Persons with suggestions of books to be reviewed, or those who wish to submit a review, should contact Lori A. Wingate at lori.wingate@wmich.edu.

Book Review: Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (2nd ed.)

In this time of reconciliation, Indigenous researchers-in-relation are sharing research paradigms and approaches that align with Indigenous worldviews. This article shares an interpretation of the ...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1609406918812346

An Application of Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous Research Methods With Participatory Action Research:

In reflecting upon two qualitative research projects incorporating an Indigenous methodology, this article focuses on the use of the conversational method as a means for gathering knowledge through story. The article first provides a theoretical discussion which illustrates that for the conversational method to be identified as an Indigenous research method it must flow from an Indigenous paradigm. The article then moves to an exploration of the conversational method in action and offers reflections on the significance of researcher-in-relation and the inter- relationship between this method, ethics and care.

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/fpcfr/2010-v5-n1-fpcfr05263/1069060ar.pdf

Margaret Kovach

Papers

Conversation Method in Indigenous Research