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R3 #1: White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination

  • 01 Feb 2022
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Online (Virtual)

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Author 

Kate McKegg, The Knowledge Institute  


Biography 

Kate McKegg is an independent evaluation consultant with over 25 years’ evaluation experience. She is the director of The Knowledge Institute Ltda New Zealand based Evaluation Consultancy. The Knowledge Institute specializes in evaluation, evaluative thinking and practice, evaluation capacity building, research, policy and public sector management (www.knowledgeinstitute.co.nz). Kate is also co-founder of the Developmental Evaluation Institute (https://developmental-evaluation. org), and a member of the Kinnect Group (www.kinnect.co.nz) and the Tuakana Teina Collective. Kate is a founding member and past convenor of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (www.anzea.org.nz). She is co-editor of New Zealand’s only evaluation text, Evaluating Policy and Practice: A New Zealand Reader (2003), and co-editor (along with Michael Quinn Patton and Nan Wehipeihana) of the book Developmental Evaluation: Real World Applications, Adapted Tools, Questions Answered, Emergent Issues, Lessons Learned, and Essential Principles (Guilford Press, 2015). 

Title 

White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination  

Abstract 

This paper builds on a keynote paper presented at the 2018 Canadian Evaluation Society annual conference by Kate McKegg, a Pākehā, non-Indigenous evaluator from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Kate reflects on the concept and implications for Indigenous people of white privilege in colonized Western nations. She discusses some of the ways in which white privilege and its consequences play out in the field of evaluation, perpetuating colonial sentiments and practices that maintain and reinforce inequities and injustice and potentially threaten the social justice aspirations of the field. Kate argues that those with white privilege have much work to do, unpacking and understanding their privilege if they are to have any chance of playing a role in deconstructing and dismantling the power structures that hold colonizing systems in place. She suggests that for evaluators to be effective allies for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, they must undertake ideological, cultural, emotional, and constitutional work. This work will be tough and scary and is not for the faint hearted. But it is vital to unlocking the potential transformation that can come from just and peaceful relationships that affirm and validate Indigenous peoples’ ways of knowing and being. 

Reference 

McKegg, K. (2019). White privilege and the decolonization work needed in evaluation to support Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Canadian Journal of Evaluation, 34(2), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.67978  


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