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Intentional Refusal Humanizes Research Power

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Academe is very much about the generation and swapping of stories, and there are some stories that the academy has not yet proven itself responsible enough to hear. - p232

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Academe is very much about the generation and swapping of stories, and there are some stories that the academy has not yet proven itself responsible enough to hear. - p232

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Refusal understands the wisdom in a story, as well as the wisdom in not passing that story on. Pg 244

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Refusal understands the wisdom in a story, as well as the wisdom in not passing that story on. Pg 244

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“We are able to see ways in which a researcher might make transparent the coloniality of academic knowledge in order to find its ethical limits, expand the limits of sovereign knowledge, and expand decolonial representational territories” (p. 243).

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"Refusal, and stances of refusal in research, are attempts to place limits on conquest and the colonization of knowledge by marking what is off limits, what is not up for grabs or discussion, what is sacred, and what can't be known" (p. 225)

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Resistance, reclaiming, recovery, reciprocity, regeneration. (pg. 244)

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Resistance, reclaiming, recovery, reciprocity, regeneration. (pg. 244)

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Alongside analyses of pain and damage-centered research, Eve has theorized desire-based research as not the antonym but rather the antidote for damage-focused narratives. p.231

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Alongside analyses of pain and damage-centered research, Eve has theorized desire-based research as not the antonym but rather the antidote for damage-focused narratives. p.231

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Research presents opportunities of power, responsibility, and change.  Be mindful that its use humanizes and benefits those it seeks to better understand.

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Recognizing deeply embedded power structures

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Knowledge is responsibility, not treasure

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Knowledge is responsibility, not treasure

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Not everything uncovered needs reporting -p233

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Not everything uncovered needs reporting -p233

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Carefully interrogate personal and cultural ideas of power, design and redesign to acknowledge the structures at play, name & claim and operate from cultural and researcher humility.  Slow down and back up often.

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"...social science research is concerned with providing recognition to the presumed voiceless, a recognition that is enamored with knowing through pain." (p. 227)

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"...social science research is concerned with providing recognition to the presumed voiceless, a recognition that is enamored with knowing through pain." (p. 227)

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Stories are meant to be passed along appropriately

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Stories are meant to be passed along appropriately

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(235)

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"Novice researchers emerge from doctoral programs eager to launch pain-based inquiry projects because they believe that such approaches embody what it means to do social science..." (p. 227) - we are called to look beyond this temptation to see how such projects can be colonizing by turning the pain of our participants into a spectacle for academic/predominant society.

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"Novice researchers emerge from doctoral programs eager to launch pain-based inquiry projects because they believe that such approaches embody what it means to do social science..." (p. 227) - we are called to look beyond this temptation to see how such projects can be colonizing by turning the pain of our participants into a spectacle for academic/predominant society.

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Refusal within research is a way of thinking about humanizing research.

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Refusal within research is a way of thinking about humanizing research.

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(p. 223)

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We are stepping into a realm that has actively caused harm to people and communities. We must acknowledge that, be humbled by that, and intentionally do better.

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We are stepping into a realm that has actively caused harm to people and communities. We must acknowledge that, be humbled by that, and intentionally do better.

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Many social science disciplines emerged from the need to provide justifications for social hierarchies undergirded by White supremacy and manifest destiny. (p. 228)

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Be mindful of the true nature of the research and it's impact. Think more clearly about the space I am in

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Uncover the lessons / wisdom of the past to empower others

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Uncover the lessons / wisdom of the past to empower others

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(232)

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"fetish of pain narratives"

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“research is reduced to a performance of inquiry in order to acquire legitimacy.”

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“research is reduced to a performance of inquiry in order to acquire legitimacy.”

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To adopt a critical way of thinking, and be open-minded.

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To adopt a critical way of thinking, and be open-minded.

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Continuity- Observing- Value

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Check your privilege, except refusal

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Academic knowledge is particular and privileged, yet disguises itself as universal and common; it is settler colonial; it already refuses desire; it sets limits to potentially dangerous Other knowledges; it does so through erasure, but importantly also through inclusion, and its own imperceptibility. (p. 235)

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Academic knowledge is particular and privileged, yet disguises itself as universal and common; it is settler colonial; it already refuses desire; it sets limits to potentially dangerous Other knowledges; it does so through erasure, but importantly also through inclusion, and its own imperceptibility. (p. 235)

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Collective wisdom from pain and humiliation

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Borrow from Audra Simpson's questions (p. 234):

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Borrow from Audra Simpson's questions (p. 234):

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Can I do this and still come home? What am I revealing here and why? Where will this get us? Who benefits from this and why?

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P. 236☝️

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Participatory action research and other research approaches that involve participants in constructing the design and collection of voice (as data) are not immune to the fetish for pain narratives. (p. 230)

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Explore how refusal and installation of limits on settler colonial knowledge might be productive