Abstract
This paper outlines the development of Indigenist Health Humanities as a new and innovative field of research building an intellectual collective capable of bridging the knowledge gap that hinders current efforts to close the gap in Indigenous health inequality. Bringing together health and the humanities through the particularity of Indigenous scholarship, a deeper understanding of the human experience of health will be developed alongside a greater understanding of the enablers to building a transdisciplinary collective of Indigenist researchers. The potential benefits include a more sustainable, relational, and ethical approach to advancing new knowledge, and health outcomes, for Indigenous people in its fullest sense.
Highlights
Rather than going beyond conflict towards a more humane world, we seem to be going in the opposite direction
There is no specific health problem that we propose to solve via our knowing, whether through canvassing the available literature or via a discrete study involving Indigenous subjects
Taking the core principles articulated via the Inala Manifesto [2], as a collective we have taken up the ‘audacity of daring’ to carve out core streams we believe underlie the formation of Indigenist Health Humanities as a new field of research
Summary
Rather than going beyond conflict towards a more humane world, we seem to be going in the opposite direction. Rather than be positioned as peoples destined to die, or researched to death, Indigenist Health Humanities as a field of research is based on an Indigenous imagining of ‘a future stretching out as far in front of us as it does behind us’ [1]. We tell this story as a multidisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics which comprises Aboriginal health workers as well as a nurse, epidemiologist, critical social scientist, journalist, philosopher, political scientist, lawyer, and a critical race scholar. Australian Indigenism has capitalized on new and flexible ways to conduct research. (Lester Rigney [14] (pp. 37–38))
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