Indigenous Research Ethics - (Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity) by Lily George & Juan Tauri & Lindsey Te Ata O Tu MacDonald (Hardcover)

About the Book

It's important that research with indigenous peoples is ethically and methodologically relevant. This volume looks at challenges involved in this research and offers best practice guidelines to research communities, exploring how adherence to ethical research principles acknowledges and maintains the integrity of indigenous people and knowledge.

Book Synopsis

Given the extreme variety of research issues under investigation today and the multi-million-dollar industry surrounding research, it becomes extremely important that we ensure that research involving Indigenous peoples is ethically as well as methodologically relevant, according to the needs and desires of Indigenous peoples themselves. This distinctive volume presents Indigenous research as strong and self-determined with theories, ethics and methodologies arising from within unique cultural contexts. Yet the volume makes clear that challenges remain, such as working in mainstream institutions that may not regard the work of Indigenous researchers as legitimate 'science'. In addition, it explores a twenty-first-century challenge for Indigenous people researching with their own people, namely the ethical questions that must be addressed when dealing with Indigenous organisations and tribal corporations that have fought for - and won - power and money.
The volume also analyses Indigenous/non-Indigenous research partnerships, outlining how they developed respectful and reciprocal relationships of benefit for all, and argues that these kinds of best practice research guidelines are of value to all research communities.

About the Author

Lily George (Ngāpuhi tribe) is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Social & Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She currently serves as Chair of the New Zealand Ethics Committee
Juan Tauri (Ngati Porou tribe) is a Senior Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has published widely, including Indigenous Criminology (co-authored with Cunneen, 2016).
Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald (Ngāpuhi tribe) lectures in Politics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A member of the University's Human Ethics Committee for 12 years, with 4 as chair, he has published on indigenous politics, ethics review and Q method.