Storying: a Reflection on Entanglements with Indigenous Australian Methodology ...

• Main Author: Slater, Olivia JE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CERJ, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge 2020
• Subjects: Indigenous Australian methodologies; Storying; Applied Drama.; Moreton; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.58324; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/311229

This article explores a First Nations PhD student’s personal narrative of navigating the entanglement of obligations, relationships, and methodology, while undertaking research with their own community within the Australian settler state. The experience of First Nations PhD student in our journey toward epistemological resonance confined by our unique geopolitical contexts is not adequately represented in any one discourse. Not only are First Nations PhD students dispersed throughout disciplines with unique specific circumstances, we are relative newcomers to the academy. On my journey I privilege my scholarly Matriarchs, Ngugi and Waka Waka scholar Professor Tracey Bunda and Goenpal scholar Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, while also honouring my own Elders and Matriarchs. I am undertaking fieldwork with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, a long running Aboriginal theatre company located in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). Phillips and Bunda’s Storying (2018) underpins my pedagogical approach in the ...