Linda tuhiwai smith quotes about change

The Sociological Review Foundation’s Annual Lecture &#; “Decolonizing Methodologies: 20 Years On” &#; was given by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (University of Waikato, New Zealand) and presented at Goldsmiths, University of London on 16th October The content featured personal reflections on approaches to undertaking qualitative research informed by decolonial practices two decades after the scholar&#;s internationally acclaimed monograph Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples () was first published.

Structured into three key sections, Linda Tuhiwai Smith opened with commentary about the impacts and legacies of British imperialism and settler colonialism in New Zealand – focusing, in particular, on the effects of the English language being imposed on indigenous Maori communities over several centuries.

This was followed by some lines of poetic verse and selected narratives recounted from Maori folklore to introduce and discuss the impo