Desire-based research
“Communities in struggle, particularly Indigenous and negatively racialised communities should avoid “damage-centred” preoccupations and move towards research that is “desire-based (See Tuck 2009).”
“Tuck’s clarion call to privilege desire over damage is neither meant to indicate that the consequences of colonialism are “over,” nor is Tuck suggesting that intergenerational and persisting colonial trauma go unspoken of or be denied. Rather, Tuck is offering desire-based research as an “antidote” to the dangers posed by damage-centred research which pathologises communities and defines them either by their injuries – or what they are perceived to be lacking.”
Source: “This present relationship and its beauty…”: Indigenous Youth Activism and Desire-based Research in the Postcolonial Caribbean - Antipode Online
▻https://antipodeonline.org/2019/10/23/indigenous-youth-activism
