Settler colonialocene? Priyanka Dutt, Anastasya Fateyeva, Michelle Gabereau, Marc Higgins, ‘Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity Through Thinking with Kim Tallbear’, in Maria F. G. Wallace, Jesse Bazzul, Marc Higgins, Sara Tolbert (eds), Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Palgrave, 2022, pp. 109-119 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonialocene? Priyanka Dutt, Anastasya Fateyeva, Michelle Gabereau, Marc Higgins, ‘Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity Through Thinking with Kim Tallbear’, in Maria F. G. Wallace, Jesse Bazzul, Marc Higgins, Sara Tolbert (eds), Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Palgrave, 2022, pp. 109-119

13Dec21

Abstract: What does it mean to respond to the Anthropocenes, plural, when doing science education? Specifically, can we critically engage with the Anthropocene, singular, without responding to the multiplicity in which Indigenous land and its many facets within the global community were at risk of destruction from Man? In this work, we contemplate the urgency of the inclusion of Indigenous philosophies and ways-of-knowing within the arching body politic, giving space to these practices that have been otherwise silenced within and beyond Western colonial frames. We argue that if the ways of thinking and practicing science and science education continue to stem from settler colonialism, capitalism, and toxicity, having previously and continually been responsible for the erasure of Indigeneity, the response within the Anthropocene will be multitudinously harmful. Here, we turn to Dakota scholar, Kim Tallbear, (Native American DNA: Tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic belonging, University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and her work in the intersections of identity, science, settler relations, and Indigeneity with the use of provocative imagery to the innate feeling of and within the Anthropocene(s).

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