Adult Education and Critical Global Citizenship

This paper addresses two areas of critical concern regarding adult education and conceptions of global citizenship: the impact of deep integration of the Americas and the invisibility of the Indigenous world view in adult education literature regarding citizenship and human rights. It argues for a radial reconceptualization of these key areas

Beside-the-mind: an unsettling, reparative reading of paranoia

Having undertaken a critical analysis of a transnational program of research to identify and intervene on the prodrome, a pre-psychotic state, here I experiment with an unsettling, reparative reading of its affective coils—paranoia. Etymologically joining para (beside) with nous (mind), “paranoia” denotes an experience beside-the-mind. I attempt to follow these roots, meeting a non-human figure—Coatlicue—as introduced through Chicana philosopher and poet, Gloria Anzaldúa. In the arms of this goddess, the prodrome points to the vitality and the milieu of paranoia, re-turning it as a capacity, calling for modes of attunement and apprenticeship, and perhaps protecting our psychological and political practices against yet another operation of colonialist capture. Challenging the subject, interlocutors, and form typically adopted by not just Psychology but Affect Studies too, I hope in this performative essay to also lift up the problems and possibilities of Walter Mignolo’s ‘border thinking’ as a means to open the potential decoloniality, and thus response-ability, of these fields within the present political moment

Challenging Knowledge Capitalism: Indigenous Research in the 21st Century

Challenging Knowledge Capitalism: Indigenous Research in the 21st Centur

Unspeakable Things: Indigenous Research and Social Science

Aboriginal peoples historically know the social sciences as a form of violence, part of the naming and claiming of Aboriginal peoples, their lands and histories for the colonizers. From the 1800s to 1958, tens of thousands of Aboriginal individuals were taken from their homes and families and exhibited, while craniometry was used to ‘scientifically’ prove the inferiority of Aboriginal peoples, so justifying genocide and forcible assimilation. Today, Aboriginal knowledge is tolerated at the university insofar as it conforms to colonial standards of science and increasingly, insofar as it can demonstrate its profitability. Against such colonial science, however, Aboriginal peoples are undertaking research on their own terms and for their own communities, drawing on Aboriginal ontologies and epistemologies. Distinct relations to the natural world and ancestors, and responsibilities to future generations shape Aboriginal research as unique practices that have as their ultimate aim the explicitly political goals of decolonization and liberation.Historiquement, les peuples autochtones connaissent les sciences sociales comme une forme de violence, faisant partie des processus de dénomination et d’appropriation des peuples, des terres et des histoires autochtones par et pour les colonisateurs. De 1800 à 1958, des dizaines de milliers d’individus autochtones étaient enlevées à leurs foyers et à leurs familles et exposés de façon « scientifique », pendant que la craniométrie était utilisée afin de prouver « scientifiquement » l’infériorité des peuples autochtones, justifiant au passage le génocide et l’assimilation forcée. Aujourd’hui, les connaissances autochtones sont tolérées à l’Université dans la mesure où elles se conforment aux normes de recherche coloniale et, de plus en plus, dans la mesure où ces recherches démontrent leur profitabilité. Contre cette science coloniale, les peuples autochtones font de la recherche avec leurs propres termes, et pour leurs propres communautés, ancrée dans les ontologies et épistémologies autochtones. Leurs relations distinctes avec la Nature et les ancêtres et leurs responsabilités envers les générations à venir façonnent la recherche autochtone et engendrent des pratiques uniques qui ont comme objectif ultime politiquement explicite la décolonisation et la libération

Vers une justice multi-espèces : cadre théorique, enjeux et programme de recherche pour les théories et politiques environnementales

This essay seeks to open a conversation about multispecies justice in environmental politics. It sets out some of the theoretical approaches, key areas of exploration, and obvious challenges that come with rethinking a core plank of liberal theory and politics. First, we discuss some of the diverse scholarly fields that have influenced the emergence of multispecies justice. We then discuss core concerns at the centre of this reconfiguration of justice – including broadening conceptions of the subject of justice and the means and processes of recognition (and misrecognition). The importance of deconstructing and decolonising the hegemony of liberal political discourse is crucial, and is part of a larger project for multispecies justice to rework a politics of knowledge and practice of political communication. Finally, we begin to explore what a commitment to multispecies justice might demand of politics and policy