Moore, Susan Janelle (2021) Embracing the Knot: The Importance of Personal Risk-Taking Within Intercultural Research in Aboriginal Australia. In: Danaher, Patrick Alan, and Mulligan, Deborah L., (eds.) Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 209-230.

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Abstract

Critical inquiry into sensitive social problems requires risk-taking by researchers and research participants alike. Detailed in this chapter are insights into risks as experienced by the scholar within a study involving Aboriginal participants in remote Australia. Research is both personal and political, requiring researchers to move deftly between each realm as they negotiate their legitimacy as agents of social change through this medium. Rather than avoiding personal vulnerability, the scholar can navigate personal and professional risks positively. Arguably, through actively embracing the knot of discomfort associated with risk-taking, researchers open themselves to deeper engagement with Aboriginal participant voice and expertise, thereby discovering innovative solutions to complex problems.

Item ID:	77769
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Reference)
ISBN:	978-3-030-53857-6
ISSN:	2662-7353
Keywords:	Culture; Decolonising research; Intercultural research; Remote Australia; Risk-taking
Copyright Information:	© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2023 02:46
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4409 Social work > 440999 Social work not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	21 INDIGENOUS > 2101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services > 210199 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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