%0 Journal Article
%T A Story of Becoming: Entanglement, Settler Ghosts, and Postcolonial Counterstories
%A Esther Fitzpatrick
%J Cultural Studies £¿ Critical Methodologies
%@ 1552-356X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1532708617728954
%X ¡°¨±kaipo,¡± she tells me. ¡°Your place of contentment.¡± And there it is¡ªa gift. The gift of a word to story my ¡°belonging¡± to my place. The gift from my friend, a M¨¡ori scholar. The gift of an indigenous M¨¡ori word to a P¨¡keh¨¡, the descendent of a colonial New Zealander. I receive this gift as a taonga, a treasure. As a critical autoethnography, this article demonstrates the process of layering the personal story alongside the wider historical and social story, and alongside stories of other peoples, through a Critical Family History. As a strategy of decolonization, the stories are interrogated using critical theory. Cognizant of Smith¡¯s seminal work on decolonizing methodologies, this work illuminates the power dynamics embedded in my family stories and indigenous stories and histories are central to the work. I create a factionalized script drawing on data generated through my critical family history research to provide a coherent story and generate the conditions for deep emotional understandings
%K critical family history
%K factionalisation
%K critical autoethnography
%K postcolonial entanglement
%K decolonization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532708617728954