Knowledge (Other Keyword)
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The relationship between the academia and non-academic individuals is often challenging, as there are tensions between who owns the power to produce knowledge. Citizen science is breaking this untold rule by incorporating the communities, fostering interactions that help transform segregated relationships. Recovery of knowledge from traditional and local perspectives has shown that individuals and communities hold very valuable, deep knowledge regarding their specific surroundings and daily...
Governing in the Early Modern Sapmi (2016)
In the 17th century, the Swedish kingdom launched exploitation and colonization programs in the northern region of Sápmi. These programs involved political, economic and cultural rhetoric of reform, progress and utility as well as practical and material actions of rearranging the landscape. Traditionally this process has been viewed as largely designed and controlled by the state with rather passive participation/resistance of the Sami. In this paper I will challenge this picture and discuss the...
Interrupting The Pattern Of Privilege: Redressing Access Inequality Through The Repatriation Of Knowledge (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For several decades, global repatriation efforts have focused primarily on the return of human remains and funerary items from archaeological contexts. A shift now has museums looking towards high profile items such as the Elgin Marbles and looted artifacts from Benin. Although immensely...