CIARS: 12th Annual Decolonizing Conference
Keynote: A Complexity Approach to Decolonization (and a decolonial approach to complexity)
November 10, 2023.
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GTDF inquiry & experiments mentioned in the CIARS keynote
- Four socially sanctioned denials
- GTDF gift contract: theory of change
- The BUS within us: self-diffraction
- The house modernity built: systemic critique
- Stacked weights that IBPOC people face in modern institutions
- ClimateFraud draft framework
- Inquiry on neurodecolonization
- SMDR compass
- Moving with storms report
- Facing Human Wrongs course
- Hospicing modernity
Other experiments
- What is possible, but currently unintelligible: responses to the Israel-Hamas war
- Returning lands
- The gifts of failure
- Cartography of critiques
- Race, inequalities and global change conversation
- Towards eldering
- 7 steps back and 7 steps forward
- Depth conversations
- Radars for reading and being read
- 10 D’s of disillusionment (with inclusion)
- Letter to prospective immigrants
- The four mountains story
- Human exceptionalism
- Confronting colonialism in health (workbook)
- Confronting colonialism in conservation (report)
- Open letter to BC Parks
- Prayer songs for difficult times
- Radical tenderness
- Art-life rituals for radical tenderness
- Haruko accord
- Broccoli seed agreement
- Decks of cards
- Towards accountable relations and relationship building with Indigenous communities
- Towards healthier relations with aging and dying
- (Shit) storm categories
- Stamina for decolonizing higher education
- In Earth’s care podcast series
- Coming of age in the climate change era
- Systemic-trauma-informed education
- Plea of the amazon forest
- Anti-assholism memo
- Circular
- Preparing for the end of the world as we know it
- Education 2048
- Global citizenship otherwise
- Metabolic intimacies (without guarantees)
- Engaged dis-identifications
- Forest walk invitations
Po-ethic exercises
Books
- Towards braiding
- Hospicing modernity
- Towards scarring our collective soul wound
- Outgrowing modernity (forthcoming)
- Unsettling the university
Talks
Top 10 academic texts (articles and chapters)
- Mapping interpretations of decolonization in the context of higher education
- Gesturing towards decolonial futures: Reflections on our learnings thus far
- Decolonization in higher education
- Who decides? In whose name? For whose benefit? Decoloniality and its discontents
- From “education for sustainable development” to “education for the end of the world as we know it”
- Beyond colonial futurities in climate education
- Higher Education and the Modern/Colonial Global Imaginary
- Methodologies for gesturing towards decolonial futures
- The task of education as we confront the potential for social and ecological collapse
- Conspicuous Consumption: economies of virtue and the commodification of Indigeneity
Plant-medicine related texts
- A Collective Call for Accountability in Plant Medicine Experiences
- Why the “Psychedelic Renaissance” is just Colonialism by Another Name
Huni Kui-driven resources in English
Much of the work of this international collective has happened in unceded Musqueam lands (where the University of British Columbia is located). We would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Musqueam People for enabling us to carry out this work in their lands. We also want to acknowledge the ongoing inspiration and guidance provided to our collective by the Teia das 5 Curas Indigenous network..
We are grateful for the support received from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada and the long-term support of the Musagetes Foundation for the research, artistic creation and dissemination of this work.
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures 