A Flight of Imagination Into Temazcal Relationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melba Marin-Velasquez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 5-25 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2025.14.4.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4417474286 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Inequities persist in working with Indigenous communities especially with power dynamics and structures. Relationship building and relationality with Indigenous communities in educational research are hindered by these power imbalances. Using an experience of flight of imagination to recenter researchers/community relationship building, this article engages a space for transformation—shifting from the Western academic institutional framing of research and relationship building to Indigenous epistemology of relationality. The article incorporates the Indigenous temazcal or sweat lodge, a space of healing and spirituality, as an approach that posits relationality as spirituality in the creation of safe spaces for learning and interaction of researchers and the communities’ full selves
Imagination · Indigenous · Spirituality · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
The Semiotics of Collective Memories
Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry
Beyond the Life/Not-Life Binary
Pedagogy and Indigenous knowing and learning
Ritual Sweat Bath in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry
Ancestral Knowledge Systems
Applying Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Research Principles to Partnership Development in Health Disparities Research
Decolonizing interpretive research
Haciendo que hacer - cultivating a Mestiza worldview and academic achievement
Theories in the Flesh and Flights of the Imagination
Countering Coloniality in Educational Research
The Lives and Values of Researchers
El temazcal mesoamericano
What is relationality? Indigenous knowledges, practices and responsibilities with kin
Consenting to the Consent Form
Ethics, Reflexivity, and "Ethically Important Moments" in Research
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |