ABSTRACT

From our standpoints as Indigenous and ally researchers in the social sciences and socio-legal field, we offer an autoethnographic, reflexive account of a three-year research collaboration about close relationships, disability, and social connection. After engaging in one structured reflection exercise, several informal reflective conversations, and a pipe ceremony that marked the beginning of our next research endeavour together, we outline three emergent issues, each representing a point of struggle that ultimately became a strength in our research approach and contributions to knowledge. We also put forward a fourth issue that emerged in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and that has deeply shaped our research and reflection since. Our paper is intended to function as both a specific examination of lessons learned and knowledge generated in our experience of community-engaged Indigenous research, and also as a broader ensemble of principles that can be useful for doing thoughtful and critical reflective practice from an Indigenous perspective. We maintain that, taken together, the issues and principles we bring forth help to clarify how reflection on Indigenous research can assess whether and how we are doing our work in a ‘good way,’ and exemplify an approach that strives to empower communities while generating new knowledge.

摘要

从我们作为社会科学和社会法律领域的原住民和盟友研究者的立场出发，我们提供了一份自传式的，自省性的研究报告，说明了有关紧密关系，残障和社会联系的三年研究合作。在进行了一次结构化的反思练习，几次非正式的反思对话以及一起标志着我们下一个研究工作开始的管道仪式之后，我们概述了三个新出现的问题，每个问题都代表着一个奋斗点，最终成为我们研究方法和方法的强项。对知识的贡献。我们还提出了第四个问题，该问题是根据COVID-19大流行而出现的，此后深刻地影响了我们的研究和思考。我们的论文旨在既是对经验教训的具体考察，又是我们在社区参与的土著研究经验中所产生的知识，而且还可以作为更广泛的原则集合，这些原则可用于从土著角度进行有思想和批判性的反思性实践。 。我们坚持认为，我们提出的问题和原则加在一起有助于阐明对土著研究的反思如何评估我们是否以及如何以“良好方式”开展工作，并举例说明了一种旨在在创造社区的同时赋予社区权力的方法新知识。