Oct. 23, 2020 Sociology Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Kim TallBear, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Indigenous peoples are viewed as exceedingly “spiritual,” and dominant scientific traditions tend to denigrate Indigenous understandings of the world as beliefs rather than knowledges. The knowledge/belief divide stems from a hierarchy of life that the sciences share with major religious traditions. Dr. Kim TallBear brings Indigenous ideas of being in good relation into conversation with the more sensible ideas of thinkers working within the settler state academy.
