Becoming An Ally : Beginning to Decolonise My Mind

• Main Author: Öhberg, Emilia
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Birkbeck, University of London 2016
• Subjects: Indigenous studies; Ally; Sámi; Saami; Cultural Studies; Kulturstudier; Asan; saami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-308449

The aim of this project is to investigate howdecolonial research can be conducted in practice whenthe researcher is a member of the majority population.I ask: what does it mean to be an ally as well as anacademic? Through autoethnography and ParticipatoryAction Research (PAR) I am attempting to “dec...