Projets

Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities
Présentation
Indigenous knowledges are crucial for coping with current global crises, such as climate change, loss of biocultural diversity and rise of xenophobic nationalisms. This pivotal historical moment requires multi-centred thinking and action, bringing together the multiplicity of Indigenous and academic expertise. Universities and academia are critically important in developing knowledge, education, and policy directives. Consequently, EDGES adopts those significant arenas to respectfully advance innovative, collaborative methodologies and new strategies for the entanglement of Indigenous knowledges in research, teaching and policy-making institutions. While there have been efforts to foster dialogue with Indigenous knowledges, these experiences remain elusive, local and not structurally transformative, as the shortcomings of multiculturalism and interculturality have demonstrated. How can we question the existing frameworks and develop new and effective entanglements of knowledges that draw from different epistemologies?
EDGES addresses this question through six different analytical layers with the significant participation of Indigenous academic researchers and the active collaboration of Indigenous intellectuals and experts. To accomplish this endeavour, EDGES creates a future sustainable and disciplinary diverse network of more than 150 researchers from 18 European and American universities, one SME and one NGO. The project contributes to a pluralist and multi-scale approach to knowledge production, research and dissemination through symposiums, workshops, mini-courses, open-access scientific publications, policy recommendations and social media. It will provide critical tools for universities, schools and communities to foster critical dialogue with Indigenous peoples and other cultural minorities by entangling Indigenous knowledges into university curricula and praxis, contributing to the education of future generations, improving policies and science renewal.
Les membres du LESC impliqués collaborent à divers axes du projet et sont co-responsables de l'axe (workpage) Promoting Indigenous Theories, Methodologies and Languages in the Renewal of Science and Education.
Partenaires
- UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA (UNL) , Portugal
- UNIVERSITE PARIS NANTERRE (UPN), France
- UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE (UPO), Espagne
- PHILIPPS UNIVERSITAET MARBURG (UMR), Allemagne
- INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS (ICS-ULisboa), Portgual
- HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (UH), Finlande
- UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES, (ULB), Belgique
- UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE GENERAL SAN MARTIN (UNSAM), Argentine
- UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRES (UMSA), Bolivie
- UNIVERSIDAD ANDINA SIMON BOLIVAR (UASB-Q)
- PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL PERU (PUCP), Pérou
- UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES FUNDACION (UNIANDES), Colombie 14 AP
- UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE (UCH), Chili
- THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (SUNY), Etats-Unis
- FUNDACAO UNIVERSIDADE DO AMAZONAS (FUA), Brésil
- Universidade Federal do Pará (17 AP UFPA), Brésil
- CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL (CIESAS), Mexique
- THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS (USTAN), Royaume Uni