The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
Qual Health Res. 2020 Jan;30(2):205-216. doi: 10.1177/1049732319861932. Epub 2019 Jul 17.
Four non-Indigenous academics share lessons learned through our reflective processes while working with Indigenous Australian partners on a health research project. We foregrounded reflexivity in our work to raise consciousness regarding how colonizing mindsets-that do not privilege Indigenous ways of knowing or recognize Indigenous land and sovereignty-exist within ourselves and the institutions within which we operate. We share our self-analyses and invite non-Indigenous colleagues to also consider socialized, unquestioned, and possibly unconscious assumptions about the dominance of Western paradigms, asking what contributions, if any, non-Indigenous researchers can offer toward decolonizing health research. Our processes comprise of three iterative features-prioritizing attempts to decolonize ourselves, acknowledging the necessary role of discomfort in doing so, and moving through nonbinary and toward nondualistic thinking. With a nondual lens, working to decolonize ourselves may be seen as one contribution non-Indigenous researchers may offer to the collective project of decolonizing health research.
四位非原住民学者分享了他们在与澳大利亚原住民合作开展健康研究项目时，通过反思过程中获得的经验教训。我们在工作中强调了反思性，以提高意识，认识到殖民思维——不重视原住民的认知方式，也不承认原住民的土地和主权——存在于我们自己和我们所工作的机构内部。我们分享了自我分析，并邀请非原住民同事也考虑关于西方范式主导地位的社会化、未经质疑和可能无意识的假设，询问非原住民研究人员如果有任何贡献，可以为健康研究的去殖民化做出贡献。我们的过程包括三个迭代特征——优先考虑去殖民化的努力，承认这样做的必要性，并通过非二元思维向前迈进。通过非二元视角，努力实现自我去殖民化，可能被视为非原住民研究人员可以为健康研究去殖民化的集体项目做出的贡献之一。
