In this contribution I share some of the collaborative work that has led to working on proposals for 'A college for regenerative scholarship'
Paper long abstract:
I share here some of the work that resulted from a number of collaborations in which we asked ourselves in practice the following questions: How could anthropology be carried out and taught in a way that did not domesticate or subjugate different ways of being and knowing? How we could carry out scholarship in ways which led to flourishing of all sorts, human and ecological? How could such learning be shared with audiences who did not participate in the actual exchanges? How can we engage with print and other media in ways that make sense to different ways of knowing? Considering how Western notions of abstractable knowledge have led to what Savranski (2016) has described as 'an ethics of estrangement' underpinning most scholarship, how can we reimagine scholarship in which knowledge and study are embedded, accountable and enabling of communities, persons and kin and oddkin of all sorts?
In sum these questions incorporate a critique of the ongoing benefit universities gain from colonialism and neocoloniaslim, epistemological colonialism, exclusions of different ways of knowing of all sorts, which following Freire's pedagogy of liberation, is what generates otherness. The approach we took was to explore what possible ways of working already exist that could lead away from coloniality towards possible forms of regenerative scholarship.
The group of collaborators include: Joss Allen, Germain Meulemans, Anaïs Tondeur, Alan Vergnes, Marine Legrand, Yesenia Thibault-Picazo, Gey Pin Ang, Adriana Josipovic, Francesca Netto, Cinzia Cigna, Francesca Marin, Luca Rigon, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Gladys Alexie and GSCI, Cassis Kilian, Amanda Ravetz, Michaela Jones, Jayne Gosnall
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Paper long abstract:
I share here some of the work that resulted from a number of collaborations in which we asked ourselves in practice the following questions: How could anthropology be carried out and taught in a way that did not domesticate or subjugate different ways of being and knowing? How we could carry out scholarship in ways which led to flourishing of all sorts, human and ecological? How could such learning be shared with audiences who did not participate in the actual exchanges? How can we engage with print and other media in ways that make sense to different ways of knowing? Considering how Western notions of abstractable knowledge have led to what Savranski (2016) has described as 'an ethics of estrangement' underpinning most scholarship, how can we reimagine scholarship in which knowledge and study are embedded, accountable and enabling of communities, persons and kin and oddkin of all sorts?
In sum these questions incorporate a critique of the ongoing benefit universities gain from colonialism and neocoloniaslim, epistemological colonialism, exclusions of different ways of knowing of all sorts, which following Freire's pedagogy of liberation, is what generates otherness. The approach we took was to explore what possible ways of working already exist that could lead away from coloniality towards possible forms of regenerative scholarship.
The group of collaborators include: Joss Allen, Germain Meulemans, Anaïs Tondeur, Alan Vergnes, Marine Legrand, Yesenia Thibault-Picazo, Gey Pin Ang, Adriana Josipovic, Francesca Netto, Cinzia Cigna, Francesca Marin, Luca Rigon, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Gladys Alexie and GSCI, Cassis Kilian, Amanda Ravetz, Michaela Jones, Jayne Gosnall
Decolonising the academy?
Session 1