ABSTRACT
Nagam builds on her previous scholarship surrounding the Methodology of the Canoe—which encompasses both metaphor and embodied practice; building connections and transmission of knowledge through land, body and water. Nagam further introduces a Methodology of Generosity, its core principles being kindness, support, collaboration, reciprocity and exchange. She argues that a methodology of generosity is deeply implanted in Indigenous scholarship, ways of knowing and being; weaving her methodology through arguments around colonization, recognition, and the mapping of space. She argues that together these methodologies of generosity and the canoe should be embedded into our relationships so we can transform and transcend new possibilities, moving forward into a collaborative future. Furthermore, she describes how both methodologies are closely connected in their relational ontology. She argues that, together, the methodologies of the canoe and of generosity can create environments of reciprocity through trust, partnership and collaboration.
