• A Principled Uncertainty: Writing Studies Methods in Contexts of Indigeneity

    Author(s):
    Shurli Makmillen, Katja Thieme (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Composition (Language arts), Literary form, Literary theory, Methodology, Postcolonialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Indigenous critical thought, Rhetoric and composition, Genre theory, Decolonial theory
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6QJ77X8P
    Abstract:
    This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the academy. Like genres, research methods are embedded in systems of interaction that create subject positions and social relations. Using rhetorical genre theory to understand methods as the cultural tools of research communities, we argue that methods can be enacted as flexible resources in the interest of advancing ethical knowledge. In the context of Indigenous epistemological activism, researchers can then take a contingent stance toward method, a stance we name “principled uncertainty.”
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    Publisher:
    National Council of Teachers of English
    Pub. Date:
    2017
    Journal:
    College Composition and Communication
    Volume:
    68
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    466 - 493
    ISSN:
    0010-096X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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