Ngeri as Māori Indigenous knowledge production /
In 2016, I undertook a transdisciplinary PhD study in New Zealand to understand more about Indigenous Māori youth apprehended for serious criminal youth offending. Māori as the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand represent 17.4% of the total population. Despite these relatively small statistics, Māori...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In 2016, I undertook a transdisciplinary PhD study in New Zealand to understand more about Indigenous Māori youth apprehended for serious criminal youth offending. Māori as the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand represent 17.4% of the total population. Despite these relatively small statistics, Māori adolescents (14-16 years old) are over-represented (63%) of New Zealand youth court charges for serious offences. Following Māori research methodologies, which were founded on kaupapa Māori theory and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge), the PhD investigated cultural identity as a resilience mechanism to reduce Māori youth offending. This case study discusses how the PhD employed ngeri, a traditional type of Māori haka (a traditional war dance with shouted words and no set actions) as a part of the methodological strategy to convey key inherent messages from the findings. Ngeri were deliberately crafted to center an Indigenous approach to knowledge production and research analysis, to challenge the abhorrent Māori youth offending statistics. Challenging deep-seated Western notions of what counts as "valid knowledge" and "robust research methodologies," ngeri dismantle colonial constructions of knowledge production. This case study will unpack the ethical considerations and the practical process behind writing the two ngeri in the PhD. The case study will highlight how Indigenous ways of transmitting knowledge, whether through ceremony, song, chants, rituals, war dances, poetry or story-telling, can be a powerful tool for indigenizing research knowledge production. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781529689389 1529689384 |