Abstract
In this chapter we compare two projects with Māori participants that highlight ethical issues related to offering indigenous participants the opportunity to be named in research outputs. In the first project, children taking part in a photo-elicitation study all agreed to be named following an ongoing process of confirmation. In the second project, we decided not to offer men with a history of criminal offending the opportunity to be named because of the potential for future harm to the men and past victims. Using these two examples and existing indigenous scholarship, we discuss issues for researchers, indigenous community members, and ethics committees to bear in mind when considering whether it is appropriate to offer indigenous participants the opportunity to be named in a particular study.
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Notes
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We provide translations of words in Te Reo Māori (the Māori language) when they are first used; a glossary is provided at the end of the chapter.
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The University of Otago’s main campus in Dunedin is located within the rohe (tribal boundaries ) of Ngāi Tahu.
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Authors’ Note
Jacob and Paris led the two projects that form the basis of this chapter. Jacob carried out background research on the studies that have addressed naming of participants and wrote several sections of the chapter. Paris carried out background research on kaupapa Māori research and wrote several sections of the chapter. Tia, Elizabeth, Claire, and Brian all contributed to the research described in the chapter and to its conception and editing. Gareth oversaw the two projects, carried out background research on the studies that have addressed naming of participants, and wrote several sections of the chapter. We thank Mihi Ratima and two reviewers for their feedback on the chapter. We also thank participants and their whānau for their involvement in our research. Jacob’s research was supported by a Henry Rongomau Bennett Foundation scholarship. Paris’ research was supported by a Health Research Council Master’s scholarship.
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- Aotearoa
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the land of the long white cloud; New Zealand
- Hapū
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subtribe(s)
- Hui
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meeting(s)
- Iwi
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tribe(s)
- Kaupapa
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approach, principles
- Kuia
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female elder(s)
- Māori
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the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Mātauranga
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knowledge, wisdom
- Pākehā
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non-Māori (commonly specific to European New Zealanders)
- Pepeha
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tribal saying describing the person’s whakapapa
- Rohe
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tribal boundaries
- Tamaiti
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child
- Tamariki
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children
- Te Reo Māori
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the Māori language
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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The Treaty of Waitangi
- Tino rangatiratanga
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absolute sovereignty, chieftainship, authority, self-determination
- Whakamā
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embarrassed, shy
- Whakapapa
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ancestry or genealogy, commonly recounted in a pepeha
- Whānau
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extended family /families
- Whare
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house(s)
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Ashdown, J. et al. (2018). The Ethics of Allowing Participants to Be Named in Critical Research with Indigenous Peoples in Colonised Settings: Examples from Health Research with Māori. In: Macleod, C., Marx, J., Mnyaka, P., Treharne, G. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74721-7_18
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