This article offers a conceptual framework on Indigenous storying ethics, storying methods, storying as ruptures and storying interventions, to distinguish elements, premises and practices ...distinctive to Indigenous storying. This conceptual framework is built from (in)formal relational storying experiences and more structured data from over twenty years of qualitative, ethnographic, and storying projects. In its departure from expected Western methodological approaches to collecting and reporting data, it lives in Indigenous truths and epistemologies in our responsibilities and in our grounding. The interplay between ethics, methods, ruptures and interventions illustrates and centers storying as it speaks of the epistemological power of storying from ancient and traditional nature-based immersions.
There is growing attention to the idea of a relational turn in sustainability science. Scholarship that names and discusses this trend briefly recognizes Indigenous knowledge traditions as relevant ...to relational turn conversations, but it has not yet elaborated on this deep source of insight. To begin this elaboration, we describe how Indigenous understandings offer practices and approaches that are highly relevant to sustainability science's relational turn. We engage in this elaboration with two core goals. The first is recognitional (or epistemic) justice - that is, to recognize and credit the foundational and profound elements of relationality within Indigenous thinking, which has embodied, understood and practiced deep relationality for millennia. The second goal is to elucidate how Indigenous thinking can help to re-envision the practices of sustainability science - specifically, via the directive that research must be conducted in service of the needs of the larger, beyond-human collective. We summarize three tenets of Indigenous thinking strongly related to sustainability science's relational turn: a centering of natural law, ethics and protocols rather than human well-being; a focus on a collective beyond humans; and relationality that involves more than ontology. We describe how Indigenous understandings can inform sustainability science on three levels: researchers' internal processes and motivations; conceptual foundations; and research practice. We close with reflections on the role of Indigenous epistemologies in a paradigm shift in sustainability science.
Background: Chronic pain is a prevalent and dynamic condition for both patients and providers. Learning how patients with chronic pain successfully manage their pain may prove helpful in guiding ...health care providers in their treatment of other patients with chronic pain. This research sought to identify successful strategies for managing chronic pain from interviews with individuals experiencing chronic pain who were able to do “most of what they want on most days.” Methods: Qualitative, descriptive study. Patients were from metro Denver, Colorado, USA and were recruited from community and health care settings. Appreciative inquiry (AI) was used as an approach to elicit stories of successful pain management. We conducted one-on-one, in person interviews using a semistructured interview guide. Analysis was completed using a grounded hermeneutic editing approach. Results: Twenty-four interviews were completed representing a range of adult ages, genders, race/ethnicities, and underlying reasons for chronic pain. Consistent themes were found in that all patients had developed multiple strategies for ongoing pain management and prevention, as well as a mental approach embedded with elements of positive beliefs and determination. Friends, family, support group members, and health care providers were key in support and ongoing management. Although 10 patients regularly used opioid pain medications, none were dependent, and all stated an active desire to avoid these medications. Conclusions: Successful chronic pain management seems possible as displayed from the patient narratives but requires persistence through individual trial and error. Recommendations for health care provider teams are made to apply these findings to assist patients with chronic pain.
This essay argues for and illustrates the theoretical and conceptual contributions of Indigeneity regarding the discourse of climate change within the United Nations. The decolonial process of ...naming/labeling issues and evidencing cultural impact, as Indigeneity promotes, is my primary focus. For example, climatecolonialism—rather than merely noting climatechange—is named, illustrated, and evidenced. It is through these vital conceptual understandings and epistemological performances that Indigeneity critiques the United Nations process, the allowance-hindrance of voice (sovereignty,) and illustrates contradictory climate change priorities. My research utilizes the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and data-observations collected from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings held in Copenhagen (COP15).
This research delves into the impact of established intellectual imperialistic representations and codes of culture imposed on Indigenous populations. The author offers new ways of viewing the ...critiques of Indigenous peoples and discussions of those representation acts by situating them within Indigenous identity and the manifestations of Indigenous representations in the burgeoning field of transnational Indigenous work. Specifically, she investigates the selling of culture through the interpretation of cultural value attached to commodities (which include cultural items for sale as well as display items found in museums and tourist locations) and the negotiation of cultural participation (as informed and knowledgeable performers and sellers of culture) by Indigenous peoples and communities. Data from various locations and events marked as Indigenous in New Zealand, the United States, and representing American Indians abroad are utilized to illustrate the relationships between cultural tourism in transnational Indigenous commodities and participants' allegiances. In investigating and analyzing the data, she contextualizes authenticity, indigeneity, and tradition in the global diasporas of transnational boundary breaking and contemporary sustainable economic, political, social, environmental, and cultural movements. Her research explores the historical nationalistic disposition and boundary making in tourists' representations of Indigenous cultures and remaps it in terms of transnational contexts, implications, and outcomes that she shows Indigeneity redrawing more actively. She utilizes a metaphoric cartography to explain and illustrate how previous expectations and imposed understandings of Indigenous cultures must be redrawn or "remapped" to more fully illuminate the landscape, terrain, and meaning of lives. (Contains 60 notes.)
Conservation leadership science has focused on identifying behaviors and characteristics that make individual leaders effective, but has yet to address contextual challenges that differentially shape ...various groups' pathways to leadership positions. We sought to understand one such challenge, how motherhood affects women's careers, by conducting interviews with 56 women conservation leaders in the United States and analyzing the data using grounded theory. All participants described how conflict between motherhood and conservation expectations affects women's leadership, particularly for mothers of young children. Mothers in conservation reported experiencing stress from this conflict and so pursued adaptive responses, including gradually returning from maternity leave, restructuring schedules, working part-time, reducing travel, foregoing opportunities, and occasionally changing jobs. These adaptations were shaped by multilevel systems factors at individual, family, organization, and conservation profession scales. We found that having to navigate these factors can undermine women's wellbeing and lead them to restructure their careers, which may jeopardize organizations' abilities to fulfill their conservation objectives. Conversely, our results suggest that greater compatibility between women's motherhood and conservation leadership work may make conservation practitioners and institutions more effective. As more women advance in conservation leadership, the profession should consider ways to better integrate motherhood to support a more sustainable and diverse conservation movement.
•Women conservationists experience role conflict between motherhood and leadership.•Mothers in conservation adapt by reducing or changing leadership responsibilities.•Multilevel factors affect mothers' ability to adapt to role conflict.•Effective, inclusive conservation leadership requires integrating caregiving roles.
When the Decolonial Goes Precolonial Martinez, Doreen E.; Cespedes, Karina; Bubar, Roe ...
International review of qualitative research,
02/2018, Volume:
11, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This article begins by identifying common frameworks of decolonial and postcolonial approaches while considering the current scholarship’s limitations of engagement with those approaches. We believe ...there is a need to interrupt (neo)colonizing approaches to decoloniality, that is, the limitations of the master’s tools. Rather, we offer a mediation that critiques the centering of the colonial. In doing so, we weave into this analysis a series of narratives that beckon us back prior to the decolonial/postcolonial turn and beyond postcolonial and decolonial feminist thought—allowing for a precolonial knowing and telling to emerge. Through these tellings, we define and acknowledge spaces of meaning and traditions.
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