title: "I Got to Know Them in a New Way": Rela(y/t)ing Rhizomes and Community-Based Knowledge (Brokers') Transformation of Western and Indigenous Knowledge.
abstract: Drawing on three culturally specific research projects, this paper examines how community-based knowledge brokers' engagement in brokering knowledge shaped the projects' processes. Informed by Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) conceptualization of the "rhizome," we discuss how community knowledge brokers' engagement in open research-creation practices embrace the relational foundation of Indigenous research paradigms in contrast to mainstream Western research practices that are engaged as linear, objective, and outcome-oriented activities. In turn, we offer propositions for building team environments where open research-creation practices can unfold, informing a periphery of shared space for Indigenous and Western paradigms.
authors.affiliation: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fornssler
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: Holly A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: McKenzie
authors.affiliation: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
authors.forename: Colleen Anne
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Dell
authors.affiliation: Traditionalist, La Ronge, SK, Canada.
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laliberte
authors.affiliation: National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation, Thamesville, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hopkins
keywords: decolonizing the academy; ethnicity and race; indigenous approaches to knowledge; methods of inquiry; non-Western epistemologies; pedagogy