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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Indigenous knowledges"”.
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Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study
For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with Māori community values and aspirations and is thought to contribute to the …
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Disrupting Euro-Western Onto-Epistemologies (Re)Imagining Possibilities for Mathematics Education Through/With Indigenous Knowledges and Complex Conversations
… interests and explorations in interfacing Indigenous knowledges and mathematics education. This focus arose near the onset of my doctoral coursework as experiences of tension/contradiction occurred that were disruptive to my onto-epistemologies, especially to my ways of knowing and being in …
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The impact of COVID-19 on services for Indigenous people who use substances and are living with HIV in Winnipeg, Manitoba
… HIV in Canada. Among those recently diagnosed, Indigenous people and injection drug users are overrepresented. As the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted service delivery, Indigenous people living with HIV (IPLH) who use substances may have been disproportionality negatively impacted. This …
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Employment and Education Pathways: Exploring Traditional Knowledges Supports for Transitions Out of Homelessness for Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples are the fastest growing population in Canada, yet face persistent housing and homelessness crises. While Indigenous Peoples often move to cities in search of employment and education, they are overrepresented among the homeless population. There is little known about what current …
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Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship
… Being” (p. 217), the principles of hermeneutics, Indigenous knowledges and ecological pedagogy come together to explore some of the possibilities for metaphorical modes of Being. This work delves into the ways in which the work of life writing might break down the language of isolation and invite …
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The Impetus For Transitions From Relief to Development In Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
… the Acholi people. In very few instances were indigenous knowledges or local perspectives considered by these external actors in the formation and implementation of their projects.</p> <p>In order for development projects to work, they must be based on what people already know. They should also …
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Coordinates of Control: Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges in Bioprospecting Rhetoric
… I draw attention to how representations of indigenous peoples and knowledges in the rhetoric of bioprospecting weave the people into multiple coordinates of discursive control. Bioprospecting, or the exploration of biological resources in search of valuable genetic and chemical material for …
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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… presence of whiteness manifests coloniality; 2) Indigenous knowledges are always taken on their own terms and never through Eurowestern frames of thought 3) the aim is always to inform meaning-making practices for white settlers, as opposed to Indigenous people; and 4) engagement of cultural …
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Tactical Dramaturgies: Media, the State, and the Performance of Place-Based Activism
… additional postcolonial and feminist theory and Indigenous knowledges, I examine digitally-enabled networks of solidarity and place-based activism that take up a critical stance towards digital networks, technologies, and cultures. My theoretical fusion of Henri Lefebvre, Brechtian performance …
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Sustainability in Southeast Nigeria Through Indigenous Environmental Education
This dissertation aims to illuminate why Indigenous Knowledge is declining in Igbo land, southeastern Nigeria, and the possibilities of using Indigenous Environmental Education to re-generate Igbo Indigenous Knowledge. The research, focusing on both Nigerian Igbo and diasporic Igbo, has the …
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Do no harm: decolonising Aboriginal health research
… health? Exploring this question from an Indigenous perspective required the development of a methodological approach that I personally undertook as a journey, as both a participant and researcher. This methodology was informed by a decolonisation framework, used Indigenous critical theory …
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(Re)storying Queer Land Education : pedagogical hub-making of Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans Indigenous educators
… and experiences of Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans Indigenous educators. I engage with what Opaskwayak Cree Nation Two-Spirit scholar Alex Wilson poses as Queer(ing) Land Education. Queer(ing) Land Education disrupts the gender-based essentialisms ubiquitous within environmental and nature …
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Spirituality in the Laboratory: Negotiating the politics of knowledge in the psychedelic sciences
… are associated vis-à-vis dominant scientific knowledges and I analyze the attendant epistemological costs of this assimilation. In Chapter 3, I analyze the efforts to integrate psychedelic substances and the spiritual experiences they induce into western therapeutic assumptions and practices. …
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An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil
… oil production and consumption with European and Indigenous knowledges in the Americas to found and sustain diasporic Afro-Brazilian cultures and economies. This study examines the early and ongoing development of Bahia’s African oil palm cultures and landscapes, connecting transatlantic cultural, …
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Unsettling epigenetics: contested understandings of trauma and evidence in settler colonial Australia
… has become a highly contested space within Indigenous health research in settler colonial Australia. Intergenerational trauma is a popular model for understanding how colonial and racist policies have had, and continue to have, long-lasting and multi-generational impacts on the health and …
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Curriculum Decolonization in the University of Cape Town: Research, Policy and Practice
… Western hegemony in higher education. Hence, knowledges and the curriculum are structured along Western epistemological traditions with a strong depiction of African epistemicide. The inability of students to see themselves and be present in Teaching & Learning (T&L) spaces, amidst feelings of …
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Knowledge to Action: Addressing the social determinants of health to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing
… living cultures in the world with philosophies, knowledges and practices that sustained culture and people through great adversity. One of these philosophies is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing, which encapsulates the holistic view of life and underpins …
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Journeying Through a Pedagogy of Peace: Creating and Translating an Indigenous Critical Pedagogical Framework from Theory to Practice
… a Pedagogy of Peace: Creating and Translating an Indigenous Pedagogical Framework from Theory to Practice is a portfolio-based PhD that works at the intersection of poetry, writing, values, ethics, and theory. It moves beyond reflection to intentional action, challenging the outdated Western …
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Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing
… Legends: Pīkoi, Pele and Others (1949) using Indigenous knowledges, this thesis reads more-than-human beings as central to feminine expressions of what Gerald Vizenor refers to as ‘survivance’ (1999; 2008; 2009). Survivance is ‘the union of active survival and resistance to cultural dominance’ …