"Weaving a Mat That We Can All Sit On": Qualitative Research Approaches for Productive Dialogue in the Intercultural Space

Emma Haynes; Minitja Marawili; Alice Mitchell; Roz Walker; Judith Katzenellenbogen; Dawn Bessarab

doi:10.3390/ijerph19063654

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"Weaving a Mat That We Can All Sit On": Qualitative Research Approaches for Productive Dialogue in the Intercultural Space

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"Weaving a Mat That We Can All Sit On": Qualitative Research Approaches for Productive Dialogue in the Intercultural Space

Emma Haynes, Minitja Marawili, Alice Mitchell, Roz Walker, Judith Katzenellenbogen and Dawn Bessarab

International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.19(6), 3654

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063654

PMID: 35329344

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Abstract

Health Services Research

Health Services, Indigenous

Humans

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Northern Territory

Qualitative Research

Rheumatic Heart Disease

Research remains a site of struggle for First Nations peoples globally. Biomedical research often reinforces existing power structures, perpetuating ongoing colonisation by dominating research priorities, resource allocation, policies, and services. Addressing systemic health inequities requires decolonising methodologies to facilitate new understandings and approaches. These methodologies promote a creative tension and productive intercultural dialogue between First Nations and Western epistemologies. Concurrently, the potential of critical theory, social science, and community participatory action research approaches to effectively prioritise First Nations peoples’ lived experience within the biomedical worldview is increasingly recognised. This article describes learnings regarding research methods that enable a better understanding of the lived experience of rheumatic heart disease—an intractable, potent marker of health inequity for First Nations Australians, requiring long-term engagement in the troubled intersection between Indigenist and biomedical worldviews. Working with Yolŋu (Aboriginal) co-researchers from remote Northern Territory (Australia), the concept of ganma (turbulent co-mingling of salt and fresh water) was foundational for understanding and applying relationality (gurrutu), deep listening (nhina, nhäma ga ŋäma), and the use of metaphors—approaches that strengthen productive dialogue, described by Yolŋu co-researchers as weaving a ‘mat we can all sit on’. The research results are reported in a subsequent article.

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Title: "Weaving a Mat That We Can All Sit On": Qualitative Research Approaches for Productive Dialogue in the Intercultural Space
Authors/Creators: Emma Haynes - The University of Western Australia
Minitja Marawili - Charles Darwin University
Alice Mitchell - Menzies School of Health Research
Roz Walker - Murdoch University, Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
Judith Katzenellenbogen - The University of Western Australia
Dawn Bessarab - The University of Western Australia
Publication Details: International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.19(6), 3654
Publisher: MDPI
Identifiers: 991005687469707891
Murdoch Affiliation: Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration
Citation topics: 1 Clinical & Life Sciences; 1.23 Antibiotics & Antimicrobials; 1.23.1051 Streptococcal Infections
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