Contemporary Community and Social Issues: Where to from here?

Question 1

Research Gaze

Answer 1

When a researcher explores a phenomenon the phenomenon or people become object of the researcher gaze

Question 2

2 Reasons Research Gaze is Important

Answer 2

1) Colonising research practices

2) Colonial Epistemology

Question 3

Colonial Epistemology

Answer 3

Valued or privileged epistemolgoy or way of knowing the normalised truths

Question 4

Epistemic violence

Answer 4

Colonises create and occupy hegemonic positionality that enables them to afford themselves power, and privilege the knowledge and ‘meanings’ which are most beneficial to themselves