Storying toward pasin and luksave: permeable relationships between Papua New Guineans as researchers and participants
Backhaus, Vincent, Neuendorf, Nalisa, and Brooksbank, Lokes (2020) Storying toward pasin and luksave: permeable relationships between Papua New Guineans as researchers and participants. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19.
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Abstract
In Oceania, Papua New Guinea (PNG) appears large in the consciousness of exploring social life through the notion of sociality. Scholarship within the Melanesian region employs sociality to interrogate forms of social life and the different ways research methods account for the understanding of interactions between individuals and communities. Yet for the three PNG authors this assumed coherency between epistemes and method highlighted specific conceptual challenges for us as researchers and participants. We identified with two conceptual notions: "pasin" and "luksave" as distinct Austronesian language ideas derived from Tok Pisin-a creolisation of English utilized as a lingua franca throughout the country. We explored the development of pasin and luksave and the ways the conceptual claims served a dual function of developing a methodological and epistemic pathway toward an ethical assurance of meaningful relationality. We extend on current understanding in two ways. Firstly employing the methodology of story as critique of research assumptions and secondly, extend on the process of story work to suggest storying as a novel but relatable research methodology. Storying such research experiences as both method and epistemic accountability, guided our responsibility toward the relationships we hold to people, community and knowledge. Pasin and luksave embed an emancipatory and de-colonial intent through the guise of oral stories. These intentions in our scholarship fostered a form of coherent expressions of research claim and method assumption and also raised questions for us regarding what decolonizing Papua New Guinea ought to consider. Our paper also highlights a reformulation of the different ways research considers Oceania in particular Melanesia and the Papua New Guinean research context.
Item ID: | 64668 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 1609-4069 |
Keywords: | emancipatory, indigenous research methodologies, melanesia, luksave, pasin, sociality, story, ethical inquiry, narrative, oral histories, autoethnography |
Copyright Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Funders: | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
Projects and Grants: | ARC Grant DP140100178 |
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2020 07:37 |
FoR Codes: | 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441008 Sociology of culture @ 100% |
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