@article{Clothier_2022, title={Intergenerational knowledge as a form of peer review }, volume={1}, url={https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/rangahau-aranga/article/view/133}, DOI={10.24135/rangahau-aranga.v1i3.133}, abstractNote={<p><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">Part of my PhD project </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">Diffracting Indigenous Practices, Quantum Theory, Electronic </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">Art</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> and the Anthropocene</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> involves bringing Indigenous Practices into dialogue with Western Science. It turns out that this remains problematic, as the knowledge types are heavily weighted in favour of Western knowledge sources. Smith has pointed out that “‘research is inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism” in the process of decolonising method (2021, p.1). However, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">in order to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> be published in international mainstream academic publications, the very process of peer review currently recolonises method. Indigenous researchers have presented strategies for “encouraging a new era of scholarship founded within the principle of “for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW60368882 BCX0">Mā’ohi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">, by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW60368882 BCX0">Mā’ohi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">” as opposed to research </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">on</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> Mā’ohi</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW60368882 BCX0" data-fontsize="11">1</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0" lang="EN-NZ" xml:lang="EN-NZ" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> (Reynolds &amp; Wheeler, 2022). Chang recognised the internalisation of colonial boundaries (2019, p.95) promoting a method based in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW60368882 BCX0">Mo’oku’auhau</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> (whakapapa or </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW60368882 BCX0">geneology</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">). Escaping the immense gravitas of the words ‘epistemology’ and ‘ontology’ when discussing knowledge is problematic, as these concepts also contain embedded Western notions around how knowledge is accumulated and sorted into categories. Indigenous systems recognise interconnected energy flows rather than proposing bounded categories. Here I will argue that the movement that needs to occur in terms of knowledge recognition – also needs to occur inside Western academic structures. I propose four knowledge dimensions as keys to unlocking Indigenous forms of knowledge so that Western academic structures such as peer review can acknowledge these accordingly. Recently I incorporated into an </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW60368882 BCX0">art work</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> the words ‘the history of knowledge has been colonised just like Moana islands and their peoples.’ From the context of knowledge </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW60368882 BCX0">dimensions</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0"> I am able to provide an argument for intergenerational Moana knowledge to be seen as a form of peer review, opening the Western academic system to accepting such knowledge. This is crucial to combating the Anthropocene.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW60368882 BCX0">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW60368882 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></p&gt;}, number={3}, journal={Rangahau Aranga: AUT Graduate Review}, author={Clothier, Pasha}, year={2022}, month={Nov.} }