Keeping the bastards at bay: indigenous community responses to research

Authors

Leslie Mack, Edith Cowan University
Graeme Gower, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Faculty

Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences

School

Kurongkurl Katitjin

RAS ID

2123

Comments

Mack, L., & Gower, G. (2001). Keeping the bastards at bay: Indigenous community responses to research. In Proceedings of 2001 AARE International Education Research Conference. Fremantle, Australia.

Abstract

Researchers are not always readily welcome in Indigenous communities. The failure of researchers to adequately explain the research they are conducting or provide useful feedback to communities, as well as the potential to use the data to condemn the participants to a deficit position in society has resulted in many Indigenous communities being unwilling to host researchers. In this paper, the implications for the conduct of a research project that will operate in a number of urban and remote communities will be discussed.