The decolonization of anthropological studies may benefit from a different approach in which researchers spend time ‘being with’ studied groups, hold space for their stories, and are responsible for the stories they as researchers then put forth, writes Aminata Cairo.
In this blog post, Aminata Cairo argues that spite advances made in the field of anthropology to address some of its problematic practices, anthropologists still conduct research in the same ways as they always have, their comings and goings based on the amount of data they have acquired.
She taps in to her own background as a US-trained anthropologist to question the role of 'helicopter anthropologists' and researchers as stewards of knowledge.
Read the full post - Transformative Methodologies - On ‘being with’ and ‘holding space’ as transformative research tools in anthropology, Aminata Cairo, 19 January 2022
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