☕🌍 New #CoffeeGeogPod ! Kit Marie and Mexican paleobiologist @mathchaos.bsky.social explore #decolonising #paleontology, identity across borders, colonial legacies in science, renaming species, the Bone Wars, and more!
🎧 LISTEN: https://soundcloud.com/geogramblings/coffee-geography-602
📺 WATCH: https://youtu.be/jW1wIe66shg
#Decolonising
While #Halle is covered in snow, the #FID team is in #Cairo at #MELCom International with a presentation on ‘Open to Read, Closed to Publish: Is There an Open Access Dilemma for the Global South? #Decolonising Knowledge’.
📢 Last but not least, here is the final member of our Advisory Council!
🟣 @abebab founded and leads the AI Accountability Lab, while being an Assistant Professor of AI at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin.
Her research focuses on #AI accountability. Her work in #decolonising computational sciences addressed the inherited oppressions in current systems especially towards women of color.
🌟 Excited to have her on board!
It’s a powerful testament to the DW-CONNECT framework: when we create a safe space, lead with compassion, respect a student’s unique way of thinking, and build on their incredible strengths, there are no limits.
Progress always trumps perfection.
#DWCONNECT #ActuallyAutistic #Education #InclusiveEducation #Decolonising
8/8
New podcast episode is out! We spoke with Dr Leon Moosavi about the dangers of #decolonising the curriculum, #decoloniality, and international students at UK universities.
Sociology was my second favourite subject in school, well maybe third, and it is so cool now that I get to spend more time listening words like: epistemology, ethnocentrism, social construction, abolish patriarchy. They don't appear here, but you should still listen to it :ablobcool:
From the 19th century debt #France imposed on #Haiti to #Trump wanting #Ukraine’s minerals, much hasn’t changed in the #West’s colonial approach. What’s the point then of #decolonising curriculums? @timesofindianews.bsky.social @timesofindia.bsky.social timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/int...
If They Are Going To Be Sahibs...
From the 19th century debt #France imposed on #Haiti to #Trump wanting #Ukraine’s minerals, much hasn’t changed in the #West’s colonial approach to geopolitics. What’s the point then of #decolonising Western curriculums? via @timesofindia https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/international/if-they-are-going-to-be-sahibs-anyway/articleshow/121344496.cms
We are hosting a panel/ roundtable, #Decolonising Public Health in History, 8/9 April, bringing a #premodern historical lens to the discussion of public health today. Please share!
Registration: forms.gle/GKtKKzrbr5Jm...
Event Info: premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1449
Nice to see that the organisation that I started my work life at, as a student intern in 2006, is today also active on the #Fediverse. Shout out to @EADI, the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes 👋
*And* they run an interesting-looking project about #decolonising #knowledge in #development:
https://www.eadi.org/development-studies/decolonising-knowledge-for-development
«#Decolonising #AI: A #UX approach to cultural biases and power dynamics»
Mahala: #Decolonising Collaborations - Contributing to a rebalance of the labour, funding, technological and academia-based asymmetries in collaborative #journalism Subscribe to email-only newsletter. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruona-j-meyer-708a321a_about-mahala-decolonising-collaborations-activity-7292470339169636354-jpzp
I guess this is probably one of the reasons why in the US they are working so hard to shut up women.
Also these ideas of recolonisation spreading all over are making me sick. #Maori #NewZealand #Decolonising #Equality
I guess this is how one decolonises parliament 😍 #Decolonising #NewZealand #Māori
We have a new podcast episode out. I spoke with Mustafa Ali about #EDI, representation and #decolonising work at universities. Next week we will continue the conversation, this time focusing on #DecoloniseComputing.
Reading a project about #decolonising audiovisual #archives and thinking about how bad it is that so much fantastic material is inaccessible for people to work with (in #radio, #podcast, #video,...). In general, but of course especially in this context, where #African audiovisual journalists have no access (high using rights fees especially) to the rich archive of the ex-colonial powers that feature so much of their cultural heritage.
A very cool collection of articles at BMJ: "#Decolonising #health and #medicine" https://www.bmj.com/decolonising-health
Among them: "Code sharing and artificial intelligence can help decolonise public health modelling" https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q27
My conversation with Dr Mark Martin about #education #EdTech and good practices in school teaching, following the release of his book "My Teaching Routine". #UKBlackTech
The most recent podcast from our #Diversifying and #Decolonising the University group.
How to #decolonize your #Thanksgiving dinner in observance of #NationalDayofMourning
Meredith Clark
Wed, November 22, 2023
"Thanksgiving is almost upon us, a time when many #Americans gather together to eat turkey and talk about what they’re most thankful for. Growing up in the #UnitedStates, almost everyone can recall the 'First Thanksgiving' story they were told in elementary school: how the local #Wampanoag #NativeAmericans sat down with the #pilgrims of #Plymouth Colony in 1621, in what is now present-day #Massachusetts, for a celebratory feast.
"However, this story is far from the truth - which is why many people opt out of celebrating the controversial holiday.
"For many #Indigenous communities throughout the US, Thanksgiving remains a National Day of Mourning - a reminder of the devastating #genocide and #displacement that occurred at the hands of European #colonisers following their arrival in the Americas.
"Every year since 1970, #IndigenousPeople and their allies have even gathered near #PlymouthRock to commemorate a National #DayOfMourning on the day of Thanksgiving. 'Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the erasure of Native cultures,' states the official website for the United American Indians of New England. 'Participants in National Day of Mourning honour Indigenous #ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of #remembrance and #spiritual connection, as well as a #protest against the #racism and #oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience #worldwide.'
"This year, the 54th annual National Day of Mourning takes place on 23 November - the same day as Thanksgiving. While not everyone can support the event in person, there are still many ways people can raise awareness toward issues affecting Indigenous communities from wherever they are - by '#decolonising' their Thanksgiving dinner.
"#Decolonisation can be defined as the active resistance against #settlerColonialism and a shifting of power towards Indigenous sovereignty. Of course, it’s difficult to define decolonisation without putting it into practice, writes Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang in their essay, #Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor. Rather, one of the most radical and necessary moves toward decolonisation requires imagining and enacting a future for Indigenous peoples - a future based on terms of their own making.
"Matt Hooley is an assistant professor in the department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College, where he teaches about US colonial powers and Indigenous cultural production. 'Decolonisation is a beautiful and difficult political horizon that should guide our actions everyday, including during holidays like Thanksgiving,' he tells The Independent. 'Of course, Thanksgiving is a particularly relevant holiday to think about decolonisation because the way many people celebrate it involves connecting ‘the family’ to a colonial myth in which colonialism is inaccurately imagined as a peaceful event in the past.'
"By decolonising our Thanksgiving, we can celebrate the holiday with new traditions that honour a future in which Indigenous people are celebrated. This year, we can start by understanding the real history behind Thanksgiving as told by actual Indigenous communities.
"While Americans mainly dedicate one day a year to give thanks, Indigenous communities express gratitude every day with the #Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address - often called: 'The words that come before all else.' The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is the central prayer and invocation for the #HaudenosauneeConfederacy, which comprises the #SixNations - #Mohawk, #Oneida, #Onondaga, #Cayuga, #Seneca, and #Tuscarora. When one recites the Thanksgiving Address, they’re giving thanks for all life and the natural world around them.
"According to Hooley, one of the most straightforward actions people can take to decolonise their Thanksgiving includes supporting Indigenous land acknowledgments and land back movements. #LandBack is an ongoing Indigenous-led movement which seeks to return ancestral lands to Indigenous people and the recognition of Indigenous #sovereignty. While the movement is nowhere near new, it received international attention in 2016 during protests against the #DakotaAccesSPipeline - which continues to disrupt land and #water sources belonging to the #StandingRockSioux Tribe.
"This year, sit down with family and friends to discuss an action plan and highlight the concrete steps you plan on taking to support Indigenous communities. 'Another, even simpler way would be to begin participating in what’s called a ‘Voluntary Land Tax,’ whereby non-Indigenous people contribute a recurring tax to the tribal communities whose land you occupy,' said Hooley.
"Food is perhaps the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday, with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes taking center stage. However, there are many ways we can make sure our dinner tables honour Indigenous futurisms too. Donald A Grinde, Jr is a professor emeritus in the department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Grinde - who is a member of the #YamasseeNation - tells The Independent that crops such as #corn, #beans, #squash, #tomatoes, and #potatoes are central to #IndigenousHistory and future.
"'A good thing is to be thankful for the abundance in the fall and note that Native people created over 60 percent of modern #agricultural #crops,' he said. 'People can be thankful for the crops that Native people created, #medicines created, and traditions about #democracy, #WomensRights and #environmental rights.'
"Rather than buying food from major corporations this year, Hooly also recommended people consciously source their Thanksgiving dinner from Indigenous producers. 'Industrial agriculture is one of the most devastating contributors to the destruction of land and water everywhere, including on Indigenous land,' he said. 'Instead of buying food grown or made by colonial corporations, people could buy their food from Indigenous producers, or even simply make a greater effort to buy locally grown food or not to buy meat harvested from industrial farms.'
"Thanksgiving is just a day away. While it’s important that we’re actively working toward highlighting Indigenous communities on this special holiday, decolonisation efforts are something that should be done year-round.
"'People can also learn about political priorities of the Indigenous communities near them and support those priorities by speaking to their representatives, participating in a protest, or by making sure that their local school and library boards are including Indigenous texts in local community education,' Hooley said."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/decolonize-thanksgiving-dinner-observance-national-213225020.html
#Decolonization #CorporateColonialism #LandTheft #CulturalGenocide #CulturalPreservation
hello. I'm Heather. I work at the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK as an Academic support Librarian. Lucky enough to work with the Gender Dept and the Women's Library at LSE, Media and communication studies, International development, Health Policy , Anthropology and Psychology
#libraries #LSE #Decolonising #Womenshistory
Great work by Alice Corble & colleagues reflecting on how colonial legacies in library collections at Sussex University & Institute of Development Studies (IDS) were catalogued over time & possible epistemic (in)justices. Given that IDS library was dismantled, this is so important, also for #decolonising efforts.
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