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Aboriginal regulation of Outsiders and the implications for researchers

by Karen Lillian Martin
ISBN 978-1921214-37-0
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The regulation of Outsiders to Aboriginal Country is theorised by scholars as invasion and contact, race relations, frontiers and acculturation. In these theories Aboriginal People are represented as powerless and hopeless in the face of their inevitable assimilation. Aboriginal regulation of Outsiders is rarely investigated for Aboriginal agency. This research study investigates the agency of a Rainforest Aboriginal Community in the regulation of Outsiders to their Country of past, present and future. It provides an Indigenist research paradigm founded on the principles of cultural respect and cultural safety and embedded in Aboriginal ontology, epistemology and axiology. The challenge for western research and researchers is to engage research as an interface where conceptual, cultural and historical spaces interface or come alongside each other based on new relationships to knowledge, to research and to self. The protocols developed for this research study provide seven rules for research to direct culturally safe and respectful researcher behaviour and ensure researcher responsibilities and accountabilities to the Burungu, Kuku-Yalanji, the research study and the academy are fulfilled. When research is transformed in this way, it is itself, transformative and works towards achieving Aboriginal sovereignty in research.

Karen Martin's thesis was highly praised by two internationally renowned scholars. Professor Norman Denzin, (University of Illinois) remarked, "this is a brilliant and stunning dissertation, original in conception and bold in execution... Relatedness theory is a major contribution to this literature." Professor Manulani Meyer, (University of Hawaii) celebrated this work for its cultural truth and integrity and wrote, "Her research showed flair, originality, depth and significant independent scholarship within an Aboriginal community. It has brought us new insights into a people and Nation that will help our own knowledge systems evolve... Her work is timely."

The thesis was also jointly awarded the Australian Association for Research in Education Doctoral Research in Education Award (2007).

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Contents

RESEARCH CEREMONY, PREPARATION PHASE: THE CEREMONY OF RESEARCH
Preface: How to Engage with this Thesis WHERE HAVE OUR STORIES GONE? PREPARATION PHASE, RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE ONE
Chapter One: Introduction and Background SEARCHING FOR THE OLD STORIES: INITIAL PHASE, RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE ONE
Chapter Two: Reviewing the Literature THE STORIES OF RELATEDNESS: INITIAL PHASE, RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE ONE
Chapter Three: Indigenist Research Theory A WAY TO GATHER AND REMEMBER THE STORIES: RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE TWO, CORE PHASE
Chapter Four: Indigenist Research Methodology "WE BEEN HERE FIRST", THE RESEARCH STORIES: RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE TWO, CORE PHASE
Chapter Five: Burungu, Kuku-Yalanji Regulation of Outsiders RE-SEARCH AFTER BURU: RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE THREE, FINAL PHASE
Chapter Six: Implications for Aboriginal Research and Indigenist Researchers CONCLUDING THE RESEARCH STUDY: RESEARCH CEREMONY PHASE FOUR, CLOSING PHASE
Chapter Seven: Significance, Limitations, Application And Thesis Statement REFERENCES INDEX

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