Comments on: Spotlight: #ProtectMaunaKea

By: Native Hawaiian #OwnVoices Wrap Up | Reading and Gaming for Justice

Native Hawaiian #OwnVoices Wrap Up | Reading and Gaming for Justice — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:45:34 +0000

[…] Spotlight: #ProtectMaunaKea In my research, I stumbled on a couple of articles and a dissertation on the Thirty Meter Telescope and the ongoing battle of taking land from Native Hawaiian people in the name of science. I wanted to bring more awareness of this ongoing issue and talk a little bit about the idea of decolonizing science. The idea that science and Indigenous Peoples are on opposing sides have long been perpetuated in US culture; however, we can trace many scientific ways of learning and knowing back to Indigenous Peoples. […]

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By: Jackie B @ Death by Tsundoku

Jackie B @ Death by Tsundoku — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:55:55 +0000

Unlearning. Oy. That will be the hardest part of it all. This is where unconscious bias comes into play. Often I find the most important things we need to unlearn are the ones we don’t realize we are doing.

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By: Guest Post: Why Indigenous Authors of Hawai’i Matter | Reading and Gaming for Justice

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:39:19 +0000

[…] Brendon’s most recent post, he identified the horrifically small collection of #OwnVoices Hawai’ian authors available but […]

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By: Brendon

Brendon — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:22:49 +0000

Thank you for reading and commenting! I got super sidetracked when writing this because of all of the different texts and articles about decolonizing science in general! I think a lot of our “professions” in the US at least tend to be oppressive – such as the medical field, science, engineering, etc. We value western perspectives a great deal more and equate all other ways of learning and knowing to primitive. I agree with you… much left to learn… and unlearn at that.

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By: Brendon

Brendon — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:05:04 +0000

Thank you for stopping by and reading! I completely agree about the accessibility of academic texts – first through databases then through language. I hope to make my way through that reading list!

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By: Jackie B @ Death by Tsundoku

Jackie B @ Death by Tsundoku — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:27:11 +0000

Wow. This is awesome. I had no idea that such things were happening. Though, this isn’t surprising to me, sadly.

I never thought about that relationship between indigenous peoples and science- but you are totally right. I also wonder often, who are we to tell people what is real and what isn’t? There is much left to learn, why can’t we start with learning from each other and embracing science from many avenues?
Great post. I am about to get lost in those additional links…

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By: Bina

Bina — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:41:43 +0000

Wonderful post! As usual I had no idea about Mauna Kea, so thank you for educating me!
Completely agree with you on decolonizing science, the from horrors of racial science to knowledge erasure! And also yes on the academic texts, I wish more stuff were open access and easy language but for those who can, need to read up on this stuff.
Thanks so much for the fantastic link, started following Chanda on Twitter Immediately😁

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