The Becoming Other Vista
“If research hasn’t changed you as a person, then you haven’t done it right” (Wilson, p.135).
Although seemingly self-explanatory within Indigenous research paradigms, such a statement requires explanation in western academia. And its meaning was far from obvious for me as I first visited the communities I ended up working with.
In fact, the concept of "becoming other" remained an elusive concept - alongside the idea of "being with-" that I carried with me, almost to the last weeks of my community-based research.
Rather than defining "becoming other" here, I pass the concept on to you, to take along and consider. Its meaning will possibly come to matter for you, as you move alongside me in this Knowledge-Land-Scape.
"Return" to the testimonial reading.