Publication Date
12-2023
Abstract
Indigenous peoples today face a wide range of constantly evolving political, epistemic and socio-cultural forms of contemporary colonial violence. Modern discourses and research practices both continue to promote Eurocentric narratives while marginalizing non-Western Indigenous perspectives. In our research project focusing on Maya Ch’orti cultural identities in the context of Indigenous peoples’ rights movements, we aimed to follow Indigenous Rights guidelines on how to conduct respectful, collaborative research with instead of on or about Indigenous peoples, thereby exploring forms of subjective epistemologies. In the present article, we provide a description of our endeavour and practices as well as of the challenges we faced along the way. We also discuss Indigenous research methods and their role in shaping reconciliatory spaces that can benefit from the inclusion of Indigenous peoples’ perspectives in the fields of psychological, anthropological, and cross-cultural inquiries.
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