Indigenous Autoethnography

This book opens new pathways for decolonial autoethnography, presented as a series of reflective stories that showcase how Mori have negotiated and navigated their personal and professional identities within contemporary society. Framed within the academic methodology of Indigenous Autoethnography, authors recount their personal and professional experiences to address their encounters with cultural trauma and personal enlightenment. As a culturally responsive methodology, Indigenous Autoethnography embraces reflective practice and critical awakening to validate Indigenous knowledge, ensuring that it remains meaningful and responsive to the needs of Mori. Utilising metaphorical storytelling as a primary means of sensemaking, this work reinforces the importance of Mori and other Indigenous People to seek wisdom from the past to guide them into the future. With Indigenous knowledge historically ignored and misrepresented in higher education, this seminal text provides invaluable guidance for global Indigenous researchers seeking to produce story work that genuinely encompasses physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.

Includes Indigenous voices rising out of colonization and racism through cultural resurgence as Mori storytellers Presents experiences of Mori navigating their personal, professional, and cultural identities Draws on Indigenous Autoethnography as a methodology to illuminate the lived experiences of Mori

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Kelli Te Maiharoa (Waitaha, Ngati Rarua Atiawa, Taranaki, Ngati Maniapoto) is the Kaihautu: Te Kahui Whetu / Capable Maori at Te Pukenga ki Otago, working with cohorts of Maori undergraduate learners and mentors on the doctoral programme. Her research areas include Indigenous methodologies, autoethnography, peace traditions and decolonization.

Adrian Woodhouse (Kai Tahu) is the Head of Programmes at the Food Design Institute, Te Pukenga ki Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Adrian's research explores the explicit and implicit institutional systems and structures of society and their influence on kai (food), power and identity formation.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction to Indigenous Autoethnography Handbook.- Chapter 2: Me aro koe ki te h o Hine-ahu-one.- Chapter 3: Ko Wai Tenei?.- Chapter 4: F*** You I Won't Do What You Tell Me.- Chapter 5: Wisdom is Universal.- Chapter 6: Waipuna-a-Raki.- Chapter 7: A Chant to Ancestral Landscapes.- Chapter 8: Identity Matters.- Chapter 9: Growing up in Aotearoa as Mori in the Education System.- Chapter 10: The Shroud of Whiteness.