MF CASR lunch with Maren Seehawer

From the Instrumental to the Conceptual Level: Imaging the Integration of Knowledges in Future Sustainable Development Agendas 

Indigenous ways of knowing have long been recognised for their sustainable potential, which results from worldviews that promote living in harmony with, rather than dominating and exploiting, nature. Ironically, indigenous ways of knowing hardly feature in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rather, indigenous ways of knowing were deemed irrelevant for the global agenda, or, at best, to be relevant for the local, operational level. Drawing on recent and ongoing analyses by colleagues and myself, this CASR talk first problematise the role of knowledge in the SDGs and in particular SDG no. 4 on education. Secondly, Dr. Seehawer will discuss what indigenous ways of knowing and lived philosophies such as Ubuntu may have to offer to possible future sustainable development goals.

Please join us in person at the MF Library, or watch on Zoom: https://mf-no.zoom.us/j/64105595003?pwd=S0JpdTIyT1dBcjRwTjg2YzVxdmVRQT09

Zoom Meeting ID: 641 0559 5003

Passcode: MFCASR