Miranda Johnson’s  article “Toward a Genealogy of the Researcher as Subject in Post/Decolonial Pacific Histories” appeared in the theme issue “The Possibility of an Outside” of History and Theory. In it, she examines differences between postcolonial and decolonial theories while shifting the discussion to the Pacific context. Johnson focuses on Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies (1999) to analyze how indigenous and nonindigenous researchers are positioned within ongoing colonial structures, highlighting tensions between objectivity and intersubjectivity as well as between essentialist and hybrid identities. Ultimately, she situates these debates within the genealogy of indigenous engagements with history and anthropology in New Zealand and questions of historical justice.

Johnson. Miranda. 2014. “Toward a Genealogy of the Researcher as Subject in Post/Decolonial Pacific Histories.” History and Theory 59(3): 421-429.