Journal article
Decolonising Australian Ethnomusicology Through Autoethnography: A Retelling of Pandora's Story
Creative approaches to research, Vol.5(1), pp.3-14
01/2012
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Abstract
For some of you, the word story might easily be replaced with others such as fairytale, fable, fiction or it might even take on a more cynical twist to mean a fanciful retelling of facts. In this paper, the author is going to take some creative license to retell the story of one of her favourite goddesses and the first woman in Greek mythology, Pandora, by positioning her within the context of applied ethnomusicological work, decolonisation theory, and her wish for a research practice of the heart and hope. The way in which this story is told may come across as rather mocking and perhaps even offensive. This narrative is both troubling and troubled by the relationships it invokes between who non-Indigenous researchers in Australia are , the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the knowledges they work with, and the tangled up past and present in which they find themselves.
Details
- Title
- Decolonising Australian Ethnomusicology Through Autoethnography: A Retelling of Pandora's Story
- Creators
- Elizabeth Mackinlay - The University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Creative approaches to research, Vol.5(1), pp.3-14
- Publisher
- International Association for Qualitative Research
- Identifiers
- 991013308128602368
- Copyright
- © 2012 Creative Approaches to Research.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article