DOI: 10.31806/2542-1158-2021-5-4-121-132
УДК 304.5
Indigenous methodologies in foreign social and humanitarian knowledge
Reznikova Ksenia Vyacheslavovna
Siberian Federal University
Abstract. This article focuses on indigenous methodologies that made their mark in the postcolonial turn in the 2010s and in the process of their formation. Indigenous methodologies are characterized by reflexivity as an ongoing assessment of all aspects of research, holistic epistemology, decolonizing optics, indigenous ethics, and fundamental ways of obtaining knowledge. The indigenous ways of acquiring knowledge are diverse and metaphorically appeal to traditional cultural practices, have a narrative component, they are characterized by dialogism and equality of dialogue participants, the predominance of qualitative methods over quantitative ones, Western ideas about sampling in relation to indigenous methodologies are irrelevant. The adherents of indigenous methodologies believe that their application should not occur to the detriment of the methodologies of Western science. Indigenous research methodology should not be transformed into a paradigmatic monopoly for the exclusive use of indigenous scholars. The postcolonial turn, like a number of other cultural turns, calls for the emancipation of the formerly marginal, not with the aim of suppressing and marginalizing the formerly dominant, but for balancing and equality. From the point of view of the postcolonial turn, indigenous and non-indigenous methodologies in the study of indigenous cultures must be equalized and applied instrumentally.
Keywords: Indigenous methodologies; postcolonial turn; decolonial paradigm; indigenous epistemologies; storytelling.
For citation: Резникова, К. В. Индигенные методологии в зарубежном социальном и гуманитарном знании / К. В. Резникова // Северные Архивы и Экспедиции. – 2021. – Т. 5, № 4. – С. 121-132. – DOI 10.31806/2542-1158-2021-5-4-121-132. – EDN BOZNDY.
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