ABSTRACT
Participative research partnerships are a relevant approach for researchers and professionals in planning and architecture as well as for Indigenous communities developing projects coherent with Indigenous planning practices. Yet, research partnerships generally suffer from a lack of theoretical foundations. This scoping review connects relationality – a founding ontological concept in the Indigenous world – to the importance of relational dynamics in partnership projects. I suggest that the coming together of researchers, professionals, and communities occurs in a partnership space, a space of relationality in Indigenous contexts. Partnership authenticity allows for the evaluation of research partnership processes by integrating their factors of success or failure.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my PhD committee Geneviève Vachon, Émilie Pinard and Geneviève Cloutier. Sincere thanks to all the Living in Northern Quebec lab, particularly Samuel Boudreault, Marika Vachon and Hakim Herbane. Additional thanks to Caroline Hervé for her brilliant suggestions, to Michel Moussette for the meticulous work of translation, to Claire Kingston for the revisions, and a special note for my dear intellectual father.
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