Lubicon Lake Band’s Piitapan Solar Project, Little Buffalo, Alberta. Photo courtesy Concordia University. Recently, a well-known conservative pundit, Rex Murphy, ridiculed a federally funded project at Concordia University that bears the name Decolonizing Light. “What could that mean?” wonders Murphy. “How could a person decolonize penicillin? Or anaesthesia? Or open-heart
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Canadian Dimension: Manufactured Ignorance about the Ukrainian-Canadian Left
In recent years, a new academic field has emerged, called agnotology. The name comes from the old Greek agnōsis, meaning “ignorance,” and –logia, meaning “the study of.” Agnotology is the study of ignorance. More specifically, it is the study of how ignorance is often manufactured in order to obscure matters
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Wisdom Engaged ties decolonisation to shared health and well-being
Wisdom Engaged: Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being Edited by Leslie Main Johnson University of Alberta Press, 2019 An invaluable manual for decolonisation, Whose Land Is It Anyway?, includes a variety of perspectives from Indigenous academics and activists. The book, released in 2017, mentions “rights” and “land” 38 and 165
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