Indigeneity, Diaspora, Equity and Anti-racism in Sport (IDEAS) Research\u00a0Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cAs we recognize the myths of capitalist progress or efforts to \u2018civilize\u2019 people, then we are already doing decolonial work because we\u2019re shedding light on that which has been normalized as just \u2018true\u2019 or \u2018fact.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Joseph outlined a framework of four ideas related to decolonial practices she uses in her work.<\/p>\n
\u201cPluriversality\u201d recognizes a wide variety of \u201cIndigenous, African, Arab and Asian thinkers that can drive our knowledges\u201d beyond the narrow, limited scope of Western thinking taught at universities, she said.<\/p>\n
Joseph said she\u2019s committed to the idea of \u201csumud,\u201d a Palestinian concept referring to \u201csteadfast or resolute anticolonial perseverance\u201d that goes beyond \u201cthe singular and linear ideas that come from the West and its methodological habits.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRe-existencia,\u201d a Central American idea, is the healing of humiliation, degradation, exclusion and other colonial wounds by \u201cre-defining and re-signifying of life in conditions of dignity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The South African concept of \u201cubuntu\u201d \u2014 which means \u201cI am because we are\u201d \u2014 which Joseph said raises awareness of the interdependence of \u201call living organisms of which humans are only one part.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event also featured three panellists who answered a series of questions focusing on how they apply decolonial principles in their scholarship.<\/p>\n
In their arts-based research, work and activism, Social Justice and Equity Studies master\u2019s student Alli Rolle said it\u2019s vital to \u201creimagine the tools of inquiry\u201d that go beyond Western ways of knowing and dismantle forms of knowledge production \u201cthat give power to the white, Western scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy research is focused on art, but more so what we are doing with our traditional practices, knowledges, oral traditions, visual traditions and theatric traditions to change not just our conditions but an understanding of ourselves,\u201d said Rolle.<\/p>\n
Data used to train artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning models are Western-centric, obtained from the Global North and imposed on people living in the Global South, said Blessing Ogbuokiri, Professor of Computer Science.<\/p>\n
Ogbuokiri said that decolonizing AI requires localized data collection, the inclusion of marginalized groups in the building process and the use of open-source technology.<\/p>\n
For PhD candidate in the Department of Child and Youth Studies Kay Nwakerendu Waboso, research based only on theories fails to capture the whole picture.<\/p>\n
Waboso, who is also an Instructor in the Department of Sport Management, said the use of colonial and positivist frameworks doesn\u2019t allow anecdotal stories and lived experiences to be valued.<\/p>\n
In her work, she said decolonizing knowledge production begins with \u201cusing language as a tool to deconstruct colonization as opposed to using language to upholding it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event, part of Brock\u2019s Black History Month\/African Heritage Month celebrations<\/a>, was moderated by Professor of Educational Studies Dolana Mogadime and included remarks from Acting Vice-President, Research Michelle McGinn, Professor and Chair of Computer Science Betty Ombuki-Berman, HRE Anti-Racism and Inclusion Advisor Shaka Licorish, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research Advisor Syna Thakur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valuing experiential knowledge, integrating local languages into the research process and reimagining identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":99593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,40,41,1,38],"tags":[14193,9078,9065,14273,14272,14276,703,10417,8485,567,1696,4753,3587,14275,7488,98,348,7313,129,2582,14274,14270,14271,6614,1753,3325,12376,771,12044,12432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99601,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99588\/revisions\/99601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}