knowledge
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Brain power
Blackfeet Nation presents hybrid knowledge system to the United Nations
Blackfeet Nation is creating new management concepts that mix the tribe’s core values with western science.
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 7): Hybrid knowledge systems: are they feasible?
Can indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge systems be integrated in a way that is not so combative, and if so,…
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ABCs of KM
How do we fix the world’s very unequal knowledge – and knowledge management – map?
Where are the majority of knowledge management (KM) research papers produced, and what are the implications of this?
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 6): Key debates
An overview of some of the specifc debates being waged between proponents of indigenous knowledge and of scientific knowledge in…
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 5): Threats to indigenous knowledge and knowledge sovereignty
The global North stands accused of ‘academic colonialism’, with scholars in the global South forced to submit to the dominant…
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 4): Advancing the cause of knowledge sovereignty
What is knowledge sovereignty, and what does it mean to be knowledge-sovereign?
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 3): The ‘indigenous’ versus the ‘scientific’ position
Indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge are actually much more similar than they are different.
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 2): The broader context
Economic (neoliberal) governmentality and the destruction of the commons have been at work in agricultural policy practice, driving out indigenous…
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Analysis & counterpoints
The case for indigenous knowledge systems and knowledge sovereignty (part 1): Introduction
In his new book, titled Knowledge Sovereignty among African Cattle Herders, Dr Zeremariam Fre argues the case for indigenous knowledge…
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Brain power
I watched an entire Flat Earth Convention for my research – here’s what I learnt
A public meeting of flat earthers is a product and sign of our times.