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2024-06-18 21:06:47

Excited to share the insightful papers for the panel I organised on 'Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons' with the incredible scholars Katherine Blouin, Girish Daswani, Blane Harvey, Julia Paulson, and humbly, me.
We presented at the 2024 CASID-ACEDI Conference on global development as part of the Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
It was great to be back in Montreal!
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Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons
Chair(s): Prachi Srivastava (Western University, Canada)

Critical and radical analyses view ‘development’ as propagated via colonial modernist agendas predicated on an evolutionary societal model in which ways of being, living, and knowing and their organisation into forms (systems) of the centres of colonial power were made aspirational and obligatory for colonised peoples. This relied on exalting knowledge systems and knowledges of proclaimed colon…