Too Eager, Too Fast: Challenges, Problems and Pitfalls arising from the over-hasty adoption of Indigenous Methodologies in Western Research

Tuesday 16 March, 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. Briggs J. The use of indigenous knowledge in development: problems and challenges. Progress in Development Studies. 2005;5(2):99-114. doi:10.1191/1464993405ps105oa

 

  1. Todd, Z. 2016. An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word For Colonialism. Journal of Historical Sociology, 29, pp. 4-22.    

 

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

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