Marcella LaFever, PhD (University of New Mexico, 2005), is an Associate Professor in Communications at the University of the Fraser Valley. Marcella, in examining the implications for herself to decolonize her communication practices, has focused her ongoing research program on listening to Indigenous voices that have been saying for a long time what colonizers need to do to change their attitudes and practices.
Dr. LaFever’s current work alongside Shirley Hardman (UFV’s Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs) investigates use of First Nation storytelling as a form of dialogic participation, specifically in relation to how stories were used by Indigenous participants in submissions to the Cohen Commission on Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River. The presentation for the Scholarly Sharing Initiative follows up on stories that were initially coded through use of Stó:lo story types: Sqwelqwel (oral narratives relating to personal history) and Sxwôxwiyám (oral histories that describe the distant past). This discussion focuses on the third stage of the analysis, the use of Tuhiwai-Smith’s Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects and asks participants to engage in a discussion of the validity of using this as a coding framework.
Wed, Feb 13
1-2:30 pm
University House
(South Asian Studies Institute)
For more information, contact Marcella LaFever at marcella.lafever@ufv.ca
02/14/2019