1 April 2025, 12 PM at Moore 258
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Please join us for an ecotone session with Dr. Manuhuia Barcham, Associate Professor of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. The last half century has seen a dramatic shift occur in Western academia and practice around the recognition of Indigenous Knowledge (IK). We see examples of this shift in the adoption of IK in health management programs or the granting of legal personhood to mountains and rivers. However multiple critiques have emerged around this shift seeing it as often still being situated within specific socio-technical power structures which continue to be extractive in practice. Investigating these ideas through examples drawn from my empirical design work I propose different ways in which we might be able to explore bringing different knowledges and knowledge traditions together in a way that provides value for multiple stakeholder groups but maintains the dignity and integrity of these different traditions and knowledges.
AAPI EHEJ is a three-year initiative launching an interdisciplinary thematic cluster on Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) environmental humanities and environmental justice (EHEJ) located in UH Mānoa’s School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS). We are generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.
