The logic of elimination in digital spaces: Arrow Kyle Keeler, ‘Knowledge, Experience, and Anti-Colonial Action: A Methodology for Combating Settler Colonial Erasure in Digital Spaces in the Indigenous Environmental Justice Classroom’, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2023 | settler colonial studies blog

The logic of elimination in digital spaces: Arrow Kyle Keeler, ‘Knowledge, Experience, and Anti-Colonial Action: A Methodology for Combating Settler Colonial Erasure in Digital Spaces in the Indigenous Environmental Justice Classroom’, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2023

29Nov23

Abstract: This article provides new methodologies for combatting settler colonial erasure in digital spaces and working against reproduction of settler colonial narratives, specifically on Wikipedia, through assignments in the higher education classroom. By utilizing these assignments to edit Wikipedia, instructors will be better equipped to answer students’ calls for assignments that move beyond the classroom and into activity and activism. Recently, researchers Nicole VT Lugosi-Schimpf (Métis), Nicole Patrie, and Kris Cromwell have shown the potential for this work as an educational and anti-colonial tool. However, the methodologies for editing Wikipedia in the classroom up to this point have relied on Wikipedia’s Wiki-Edu program for student training, which presents a number of obstacles for student editors seeking to make lasting additions to the encyclopedia. The framework detailed here provides methodologies to bypass Wikipedia’s training modules and prepare students to make higher quality edits that are harder to remove by colonially minded editors. This framework works against settler colonialism in digital spaces, improves upon current training that prepares advanced undergraduate students to edit Wikipedia, and provides students with the ability to make lasting change beyond the classroom.

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