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Position statement: research and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in rural health journals

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: It's time to plant a flag in the White soil of academic journal publishing and declare, 'This discourse includes the cultural voices of Indigenous Peoples'.Indigenous Peoples are almost invisible as academic authors in rural health journals.Occasionally that indigeneity may be deduced through the institutional or organisational affiliation statements, or in the acknowledgements, or in the text of articles.Too frequently, it is not discernible in any way.In essence, Indigenous cultural identity is suppressed by the conventions of academic publishing.This sees author and subject credibility resting on Western views of provenance, including institutional affiliation, college membership, educational qualifications, and disciplinary background.This research colonialism reflects a power imbalance that must end.We, as a consortium of three rural health journals (Rural and Remote Health, Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine and Australian Journal of Rural Health), believe that cultural heritage and cultural provenance are as important as, if not more important than, Western views of provenance, regarding any research involving Indigenous Peoples.We commit to developing a textual flag to signal to readers that the author is Indigenous, as denoted in our

Source: Rural and Remote Health

DOI: 10.22605/rrh7353