Video: A decolonising strategy for intercultural communication in child and family health within ethnographic research

Grant, Julian; Luxford, Yoni

doi:10.5172/mra.3.3.218

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“…The resulting group was made up of eight participants who were Black, Chinese Canadian, Indigenous, South Asian, and White. The multiracial and multicultural perspectives participants brought enriched the analysis by not centering the analysis of only one group and inviting multiple standpoints in the shared analysis (Grant & Luxford, 2014). Our positionality as participants in the group, but also as researchers meant that we were not only deeply embedded in the practices of Fossil Free UofT, bringing an insider perspective, but also meant that our research process was actively part of the group and the political struggles.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicization in Process: Developing Political Concepts, Practices, Epistemologies, and Identities Through Activist Engagement

Curnow

Davis²,

Asher

2018

American Educational Research Journal

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In this article, we explore longitudinal video data from the student activist group Fossil Free UofT to analyze what it means to become politicized. We argue that politicization is a sociocultural learning process, not merely a process of conceptual development or cognitive change, but a simultaneous process of conceptual, practical, epistemological, and identity development. In the analytic sections, we tease apart aspects of politicization, showcasing examples of transformation that center political concept development, changing practices, reconfigured ways of knowing, and new identities in formation.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicization in Process: Developing Political Concepts, Practices, Epistemologies, and Identities Through Activist Engagement

Curnow

Davis²,

Asher

2018

American Educational Research Journal

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“…In viewing video as a third party the subject is then able to engage in critical analysis alongside the researcher. In one example, migrant patients were able to talk more openly about their interactions with child and family health professionals while viewing video of those interactions alongside a researcher (Grant & Luxford, 2009).…”

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Why Visual Ethnography Should Be Used to Incorporate Traditional Knowledge Into Health Promotion in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Thompson

2019

SAGE Open

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Health care and health education seemed essential, but they could be interpreted as assimilationist: for example, teaching Aboriginal people how to think about food and hygiene in a Balanda way, instead of an Aboriginal way. It seemed to me that the immediate necessity of health care was more important than philosophical questions about the imposition of one culture onto another. We had to accept that in some cases, imposing our culture would benefit Aboriginal people. But I had learnt that Balandas would never ever articulate it in those terms. There was a strong taboo in the White community against being an assimilationist. The whole community was founded on the post-Whitlam ideals of land rights and self-determination. In practice, this meant that covert, unintentional assimilation-such as health care-went unspoken.-Mary Ellen Jordan (2005) Background Kearns et al. (2013) reviewed clinical presentations during the first year of life for 320 children living in five remote communities in the Northern Territory, Australia. The median number of presentations was 21 with 14 of these being for infectious diseases including upper respiratory tract infections, ear disease, skin disorders, and diarrhea. These diseases are so common that they have become normalized and are now perceived within communities as common stages of child development (Kruske, Belton, Wardaguga, & Narjic, 2012). The major contributing factors to this high disease burden are poor hygiene and limited housing, which leads to too many people living within a house not built for large extended families (McDonald, Bailie, Brewster, & Morris, 2008). Luby et al. (2010) has shown that hygiene education, hand washing with soap, and encouraging frequent bathing may result in significantly lower rates of impetigo and pneumonia. Stubbs, Hare, Wilson, Morris, and Leach (2005) showed that Aboriginal children living in remote communities are 23 times more likely to have hand contamination with both S. pneumonia and H. influenza than children attending urban childcare centers. Persistent middle ear infection, or chronic suppurative otitis media, is one of the infections for which particular attention has been given, as it can lead to significant hearing 856950S GOXXX10.

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“…This mismatch between the needs of migrant mothers and what institutions provide can be better understood by considering how difference is understood and produced institutionally. Frequently, health professionals subject migrant parents to both normative professional discourses of parenting and unexamined personal theories of white western middle‐class motherhood (Grant and Luxford 2009). These personal beliefs, interpretations and stereotypes guide interactions and decisions about appropriate care and service delivery (Bowler 1993a,b; Bowes and Domokos 1998).…”

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Regulating migrant maternity: Nursing and midwifery’s emancipatory aims and assimilatory practices

DeSouza

2013

Nursing Inquiry

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In contemporary Western societies, birthing is framed as transformative for mothers; however, it is also a site for the regulation of women and the exercise of power relations by health professionals. Nursing scholarship often frames migrant mothers as a problem, yet nurses are imbricated within systems of scrutiny and regulation that are unevenly imposed on 'other' mothers. Discourses deployed by New Zealand Plunket nurses (who provide a universal 'well child' health service) to frame their understandings of migrant mothers were analysed using discourse analysis and concepts of power drawn from the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault, read through a postcolonial feminist perspective. This research shows how Plunket nurses draw on liberal feminist discourses, which have emancipatory aims but reflect assimilatory practices, paradoxically disempowering women who do not subscribe to ideals of individual autonomy. Consequently, the migrant mother, her family and new baby are brought into a neoliberal project of maternal improvement through surveillance. This project--enacted differentially but consistently among nurses--attempts to alter maternal and familial relationships by 'improving' mothering. Feminist critiques of patriarchy in maternity must be supplemented by a critique of the implicitly western subject of maternity to make empowerment a possibility for all mothers.

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Video: A decolonising strategy for intercultural communication in child and family health within ethnographic research

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Politicization in Process: Developing Political Concepts, Practices, Epistemologies, and Identities Through Activist Engagement

Politicization in Process: Developing Political Concepts, Practices, Epistemologies, and Identities Through Activist Engagement

Why Visual Ethnography Should Be Used to Incorporate Traditional Knowledge Into Health Promotion in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Regulating migrant maternity: Nursing and midwifery’s emancipatory aims and assimilatory practices

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