Lisa Dirks, a member of the Unangax̂ community, grew up on the Alaskan island of Atka, in the Aleutian Island chain. Now a doctoral student at the University of Washington in Seattle, she is focused on reforming methods of scientific and academic research among Native populations. “Research in Native communities hasn’t always been the most ethical, and there has been a lot of harm done,” Dirks says.
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Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University
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Migration studies have increasingly embraced a diverse array of innovative and critical qualitative methods to gain deeper, more nuanced insights into the lived experiences of migrants and refugees. Researchers are moving beyond traditional approaches to explore the complex social, spatial, and temporal dynamics of migration, as well as how…
Carolina Alonso Berajano
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This lecture on decolonizing ethnography methods is part of the NSF-funded International Cultural Anthropology Methods (CAMP) Program, a free-to-all public anthropology methods curriculum (https://methods4all.org/camp-international/). See this link for a complete list of the curriculum and suggested readings to accompany each lecture.
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Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, ‘Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law’, in Performance, Resistance and Refugees, Taylor & Francis, pp. 155 – 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142782…
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Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University
2025 |
Migration studies have increasingly embraced a diverse array of innovative and critical qualitative methods to gain deeper, more nuanced insights into the lived experiences of migrants and refugees. Researchers are moving beyond traditional approaches to explore the complex social, spatial, and temporal dynamics of migration, as well as how…
Carolina Alonso Berajano
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This lecture on decolonizing ethnography methods is part of the NSF-funded International Cultural Anthropology Methods (CAMP) Program, a free-to-all public anthropology methods curriculum (https://methods4all.org/camp-international/). See this link for a complete list of the curriculum and suggested readings to accompany each lecture.
Maria Giannacopoulos, Border Criminologies
2024 | Australia
Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, ‘Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law’, in Performance, Resistance and Refugees, Taylor & Francis, pp. 155 – 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142782…
Deondre Smiles, Max Liboiron
2021 | Canada
Drs. Deondre & Max’s book club on Indigenous methodologies We’ve been engaging in a reading experiment called #Collabrary (Collaborative Library) where we aim to read research texts with generosity, humility, and accountability. Mostly we’ve been posting our reading on Twitter, but now we’ll be talking to one another…
