ETHSM-3000-2: Decolonizing Knowledge: Indigenous and other Knowledge Traditions
Fall 2023
- Subject: Critical Ethnic Studies - Seminar
- Type: Seminar
- Delivery Mode: In-Person
- Level: Undergraduate
- Campus: San Francisco
- Course Dates: August 30, 2023 — December 12, 2023
- Meetings: Sat 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E4
- Instructor: Mazyar Lotfalian
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 12/16
Description:
This course focuses on various forms of knowledge systems. In the contemporary global world, universal western technoscience encounters various local, global, and cultural forms of knowledge. This course explores the decolonial potential of this process in multiple contexts and settings to develop a critical view of how this encounter affects the future. We draw on Islamic and indigenous cases of the environment, ways of knowing, and being in the world concerning the technological world.
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