Ethics of Response-Ability
You have encountered a “Great White Beast”, a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as indeterminate.
The ethics involved when it comes to drawing from research paradigms that consider the world as indeterminate, intra-dependent and ontologically generative, cannot be resolved through ‘right’ ways of doing things[1].
Non-Indigenous researchers engaging any form of generative ontologies need to take responsibility for whichever option they choose:
Engaging Indigenous scholarship.
Or,
Not engaging Indigenous scholarship.
- ↑ Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023). Diffracting structure/agency dichotomies, wave/particle dualities, and the citational politics of settler colonial scholars engaging Indigenous studies literature. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 23(2), 157-169.