Integration: Possible, ethical or colonial? And what are the alternatives?

Tuesday 2 March 2021, 11am
Online
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The Indigenous Epistemologies Reading Group brings together researchers and students from across the University departments interested in engaging with indigenous perspectives and epistemologies in their work and research. This reading group is a weekly gathering in which we critically explore the mechanisms and methods of knowledge production that we engage with in our own research through the lens of indigenous methods of world-knowing and world-making. We share and discuss indigenous scholarship, its intersection with the "western" academy, national politics, and corporate interests. We explore questions of sovereignty, epistemic oppression, relational worldviews and performative knowledge-making.

  1. Erin Bohensky, Yiheyis Maru. Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Resilience: What Have We Learned from a Decade of International Literature on "Integration"? December 2001. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY 16(4):6. DOI:10.5751/ES-04342-160406

  2. USING TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN SCIENCE: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS. Henry P. Huntington. 01 October 2000 https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1270:UTEKIS]2.0.CO;2

 For more information on how to register please contact Anya Gleizer (anna.gleizer@ouce.ox.ac.uk)

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