Creating Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide - Manual / Resource - Page 90
Working with principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
(JEDI) is important in all contexts, but especially when different
knowledge systems are involved, e.g., Indigenous and academic
ways of producing knowledge. This also includes decolonizing
TD science by mitigating exclusion and marginalization of actors
and knowledge systems previously viewed as outside of science.
Decolonizing science involves recognizing and challenging
the influence of colonial and neoliberal ideologies on research
practices, knowledge systems, and power dynamics. In practice,
this informs the questions of whom to involve, how to design
and facilitate interaction, and how to include and carefully bridge
different knowledges.
Engaging a diverse range of actors with potentially contested
or conflicting interest and knowledges requires time, skills, and
money. Therefore, careful considerations of the feasibility within
a specific project and context are to be balanced with the aim to
include all relevant actors.
Further reading:
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Bammer, Gabriele. 2022. Understanding diversity primer.
Integration and Implementation Insights.
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Boisselle, Laila N. 2016. Decolonizing Science and
Science Education in a Postcolonial Space (Trinidad, a
Developing Caribbean Nation, Illustrates). SAGE Open 6 (1):
215824401663525.
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Chu, Ta-Wei. 2023. Explaining Challenges That Beset
Transdisciplinary Projects in the Global South: The Shift
from Methodological Perspectives to a Political-Economic
Dynamic Analysis. World Futures 79 (7–8): 805–36.
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2022. Decolonizing science toolkit. Nature.
Practices Diversity of societal actors
