Emancipatory Discourses, and the Ethics and Politics of Interpretation

This chapter, in the form of a manifesto, invites indigenous and non-indigenous qualitative researchers to think through the implications of a practical, progressive politics of performative inquiry2-an emancipatory discourse connecting indigenous epistemologies (Rains, Archibald, and Deyhle 2000: 338) and theories of decolonization3 and the postcolonial4 (Soto 2004: ix; Swadener and Mutua 2004: 255) with critical pedagogy, with new ways of reading, writing, and performing culture in the fi rst decade of a new century (Kincheloe and McLaren 2000: 285).5