Collections Technology 22 Apr 2021 At the simplest level, “technology” essentially means a “skilled process”. However, Eurocentric bias has meant that the term is overwhelmingly associated with Western narratives of continuing progress. If we can…
Indigenous studies Survivance 15 Apr 2021 Although this term has a long history, I want to focus here on how it has been employed and adapted by White Earth Anishinaabe writer and literary theorist, Gerald Vizenor.…
Politics and history Reconciliation 11 Nov 202019 Jan 2021 This term is often used in initiatives that aim to restore relations between settlers and Indigneous peoples. For example, South Africa’s ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ was set up to bring…
philosophy Progress 29 Oct 201919 Jan 2021 The notion of a march towards “progress” is perhaps most worth investigating in scientific narratives. Across the natural, medical, physical and techno-sciences, the message that the human species is inevitably…
critical race theory… Indigenous peoples 29 Aug 2019 According to the UN, Indigenous peoples are the ‘inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment’ and are distinguished from later settled populations…
Museums and Method Erasure 17 Jul 2019 Used to reference the fact that through colonial violence (cultural as well as physical), assimilation policies and mainstream misattribution, cultures are removed from the record. When thinking about how this…
postcolonial theory Authenticity 16 May 201919 Jan 2021 ‘Not false or copied, genuine, real’. In Eurowestern societies people of colour are continually called upon to enact a performance of how ‘real’ they are in order to justify their…
The Decolonial Dictionary 