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#593 Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonising Academia
#593 Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonising Academia
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60 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2021
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We often think the practices of science and academics as a western-European invention, and while both science and the academy have created a lot of positive knowledge, it's important to take a step back and recognize the blind spots of science that come from European ways of thinking about the world, and to see how academics can disadvantage people who don't align with that worldview. We speak to Ray Pierotti, Associate Professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas, about his book "Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" to help us better understand how...
Released:
Dec 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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