“Performance Ethnography: Decolonizing Research and Pedagogy”

Book Chapter:

“Performance Ethnography: Decolonizing Research and Pedagogy.” Qualitative Research Outside the Academy. Ed. Norman K. Denzin and Michael Giardina. Left Coast Press, 2014.  235-252.

Abstract:

What are the implications, for performance ethnography, of the critique of dominant Euro-American research models articulated by Indigenous researchers? This essay suggests that collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars can generate alternative conceptions of research and pedagogy, fostering new embodied engagements and experiential solidarities.

Overview of Qualitative Research Outside the Academy:

This volume of plenary addresses and other key presentations from the 2013 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry shows how scholars convert inquiry into spaces of advocacy in the outside world. The original chapters engage in debate on how qualitative research can be best used to advance the causes of social justice while addressing racial, ethnic, gender, and environmental disparities in education, welfare, and health care. Twenty contributors from six countries and multiple academic disciplines present models, cases, and experiences to show how qualitative research can be used as an effective instrument for social change. Sponsored by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.