Thursday, April 20, 2023, 4 - 5:30 PM
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery
Archaeology may seem an unlikely place for community-based collaborative research to take root but, in fact, it has a rich tradition of public engagement, and in settler-colonial contexts it is being transformed by powerful and insistent demands to decolonize its practice. Bearing in mind the challenge posed by Tuck and Yang - that "decolonization is not a metaphor" - I explore the question of what's required to do archaeological research in the context of ethical and respectful, community-led partnerships with Indigenous descent communities.
Alison Wylie, Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier I), Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences, Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
Organized by the Human Context of Science and Technology program. Cosponsored by the departments of American Studies; Ancient Studies; Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; Philosophy; Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; and the Center for Social Science Scholarship.