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The San people of southern Africa: where ethics codes for researching indigenous people could fail them

By Stasja Koot, Assistant Professor, Wageningen University

There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, emphasised the colonial character of much research. She warned that it

brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation.

Well into the 20th…

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