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To examine how a non-Indigenous researcher negotiates positionality, accountability, and ethical responsibility while conducting collaborative research alongside Māori and Pacific youth.

September 18, 2026New Zealand Journal of Educational StudiesOpen Access

Being a White Tauiwi, a Tangata Tiriti, and a Researcher in Aotearoa

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GMGabrielle MorinUniversity of Auckland

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Critical methodological analysis reveals how continually negotiating researcher positionality fosters accountability in Indigenous research, highlighting the ethical role of productive discomfort.

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To examine how a non-Indigenous researcher negotiates positionality, accountability, and ethical responsibility while conducting collaborative research alongside Māori and Pacific youth.
Employed a critical ethnographic approach informed by Indigenous and Pacific wayfinding practices and critical reflexivity.
Synthesized personal narratives, theoretical reflections, and collaborative engagement within cultural spaces and community organizations in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Researcher positionality was revealed to be an ongoing relational negotiation shaped by reciprocity and humility rather than a static declaration of reflexivity.
Productive discomfort served as a necessary ethical orientation that contested colonial deficit frameworks and facilitated the redistribution of research authority toward community self-determination.

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Gabrielle Morin (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aad0b72de0393d728b89bda https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-026-00489-4

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Critical methodological analysis reveals how continually negotiating researcher positionality fosters accountability in Indigenous research, highlighting the ethical role of productive discomfort.

Being a White Tauiwi, a Tangata Tiriti, and a Researcher in Aotearoa

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Being a White Tauiwi, a Tangata Tiriti, and a Researcher in Aotearoa

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