Constitutional Provision in Protecting and Managing Indigenous Knowledge Systems

2022 ◽  
pp. 186-206
Author(s):  
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury ◽  
Haris Abd Wahab ◽  
Mohd Rashid Mohd Saad ◽  
Mashitah Hamidi ◽  
Parimal K. Roy ◽  
...  

Methodologically, this study aligns with the analytical philosophy and the indigenous standpoint and cultural interface theory. This study found that the education system itself is contaminated with colonial legacy and historical ontology of ‘State'. The recommendations are the participation of indigenous people in deciding their education and making curricula. Although the location of this study is remote and rural, this phenomenon occurs in many countries. Therefore, this research would contribute to efforts in this regard over the world to merge humanity.

Author(s):  
Zingisa Nkosinkulu

This chapter seeks to map how indigenous people and their indigenous knowledge systems are the most researched and written about in the world, yet they are the least understood. The curriculum of the empire and its scientific explanation justified how indigenous knowledge systems should be approached and viewed as well as who has the authority to justify; hence, indigenous knowledge systems were justified as inferior and not worthy of the standard of European knowledge system. In this chapter, Frantz Fanon's thought will be deployed to illustrate how this division of knowledge justifies the perpetuating dehumanisation of indigenous people under the mask of modernisation and globalisation. By deploying decoloniality, Afrocentricity, and Fanonian thought, this chapter seeks to challenge this curriculum that is based on the history of the conquest of Africa that positioned Africa only as a cradle of slaves and the black bodied as created by God only for the benefit of the Europeans.


Author(s):  
Deborah McGregor

This article aims to introduce a distinct conception of Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) based on Indigenous legal orders, knowledge systems, and conceptions of justice. This is not to suggest in any way that the existing environmental justice (EJ) scholarship is flawed; in fact, the scholarship and activism around EJ have been central in diagnosing and drawing attention to injustices that occur on a systematic basis everywhere in the world. This article argues instead that such discussions can be expanded by acknowledging that concepts of environmental justice, including distinct legal orders informed by Indigenous knowledge systems, already existed on Turtle Island for thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans. It also suggests that environmental justice framed within Indigenous worldviews, ontologies, and epistemologies may make significant contributions to broader EJ scholarship, particularly in relation to extending justice to other beings and entities in Creation. This approach acknowledges ongoing colonialism and emphasizes the need to decolonize in order to advance innovative approaches to IEJ. 


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Lilley

This article considers how colonization has impacted on Indigenous knowledge systems. It discusses the issues that need to be addressed by institutions, library and information professionals, and professional associations to ensure that they are able to meet the needs of the Indigenous people in their communities. The article addresses why this transformation is required and outlines the issues that will need to be changed through a decolonization or indigenization process.


2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (S1) ◽  
pp. 53-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Nakata

AbstractThe interface between Indigenous knowledge systems and Western scientific knowledge systems is a contested space where the difficult dialogue between us and them is often reduced to a position of taking sides. Storytelling is however a very familiar tradition in Indigenous families where we can and do translate expertly difficult concepts from one generation to the next. This article is based on my attempt to story our way through the difficult dialogue and to posit opportunities for more productive engagements about the place of Indigenous knowledge in our future deliberations at the Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Knowledge Conference series.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Lilley

This article considers how colonization has impacted on Indigenous knowledge systems. It discusses the issues that need to be addressed by institutions, library and information professionals, and professional associations to ensure that they are able to meet the needs of the Indigenous people in their communities. The article addresses why this transformation is required and outlines the issues that will need to be changed through a decolonization or indigenization process.


2021 ◽  
pp. 155-173
Author(s):  
Amidu Owolabi Ayeni ◽  
Adeshina Gbenga Aborisade

IFLA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 034003522110230
Author(s):  
Spencer Lilley

This article considers how colonization has impacted on Indigenous knowledge systems. It discusses the issues that need to be addressed by institutions, library and information professionals, and professional associations to ensure that they are able to meet the needs of the Indigenous people in their communities. The article addresses why this transformation is required and outlines the issues that will need to be changed through a decolonization or indigenization process.


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