Kaandossiwin, 2nd ed.: How We Come to Know: Indigenous Re-Search Methodologies

(Minogiizhigokwe), Kathleen E.  Absolon

ISBN 10: 1773635174 / ISBN 13: 9781773635170

Published by Fernwood Publishing, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kaandossiwin, 2nd ed.: How We Come to Know: Indigenous Re-Search Methodologies
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1773635174
• ISBN 13: 9781773635170
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new
• Weight: 0.61 kilograms

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Synopsis

Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe re-searcher Kathleen Absolon describes how Indigenous re-searchers re-theorize and re-create methodologies. Indigenous knowledge resurgence is being informed by taking a second look at how re-search is grounded. Absolon consciously adds an emphasis on re with a hyphen as a process of recovery of Kaandossiwin and Indigenous re-search. Understanding Indigenous methodologies as guided by Indigenous paradigms, worldviews, principles, processes and contexts, Absolon argues that they are wholistic, relational, inter-relational and interdependent with Indigenous philosophies, beliefs and ways of life. In exploring the ways Indigenous re-searchers use Indigenous methodologies within mainstream academia, Kaandossiwin renders these methods visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression. This second edition features the author’s reflections on her decade of re-search and teaching experience since the last edition, celebrating the most common student questions, concerns, and revelations.

About the Author

Kathleen Absolon is Anishinaabe kwe from Flying Post First Nation Treaty 9. Her relationships to the land, ancestors, Nation, community, and family deeply informs her re-search. She is a Full Professor in the Indigenous Field of Study, Faculty of Social Work and the Director of the Centre for Indigegogy at Wilfrid Laurier University.