Love Tyron R, Hall C Michael
Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Front Res Metr Anal. 2020 Nov 11;5:563330. doi: 10.3389/frma.2020.563330. eCollection 2020.
Countries with significant indigenous populations, such as Australia, New Zealand and the Nordic countries, are providing increased support for improvements in the number of indigenous academics represented in higher education and engaged in research. Such developments have occurred at the same time as the implementation of performance-based research funding systems. However, despite the significance of such systems for academic careers and knowledge diffusion there has been relatively little consideration of the way within which they meet the needs of indigenous academics and knowledges. Drawing primarily on the New Zealand context, this perspective paper questions the positioning of Māori researchers and Māori research epistemologies (Kaupapa Maori) within the Performance Based Research Fund and the contemporary neoliberal higher education system. It is argued that the present system, rather than being genuinely inclusive, serves to reinforce the othering of Māori episteme and therefore perpetuates the hegemony of Western and colonial epistemologies and research structures. As such, there is a need to raise fundamental questions about the present ecologies of knowledge that performance based research systems create not only in the New Zealand higher education research context but also within other countries that seek to advance indigenous research.
拥有大量原住民人口的国家，如澳大利亚、新西兰和北欧国家，正在为增加高等教育中从事研究的原住民学者数量提供更多支持。这些发展与基于绩效的研究资助体系的实施同时出现。然而，尽管此类体系对学术职业和知识传播具有重要意义，但对于它们满足原住民学者需求和知识的方式却相对缺乏考虑。本文主要基于新西兰的背景，对毛利研究者和毛利研究认识论（毛利方法）在基于绩效的研究基金以及当代新自由主义高等教育体系中的定位提出质疑。有人认为，现行体系并非真正具有包容性，而是强化了毛利知识的他者化，因此延续了西方和殖民认识论及研究结构的霸权。因此，有必要提出一些根本性问题，不仅涉及基于绩效的研究体系在新西兰高等教育研究背景下所创造的当前知识生态，还关乎其他寻求推动原住民研究的国家。
