UMN Assistant Professor Bonnie Keeler calls for a radical Earth Day agenda centering diverse perspectives to address climate change and define desirable environmental futures.
It’s Time for a More Inclusive Earth Day
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Teaching Indigenous Epistemologies at the University of Minnesota
It has been argued that the twin ongoing and overarching crises facing students in higher education today are the urgencies of calls for justice and the threats from a changing climate. Indeed, these are inextricably intertwined. Students will face them no matter what their profession, or however they find themselves living as a citizen in the world. As Vicente Diaz reminds us so eloquently in his contribution to this collection, “the epistemological system on which our present political, economic, and cultural existences are based is unsustainable. We need radically different ways of defining what it means to be human, of understanding human-ness in relations of kinship and reciprocity, and of understanding and respecting the living world around us.”…