Faculty Speaker Series: African Elders and Eldership, with George J. Sefa Dei

Using findings from an on-going SSHRC Insight Grant study examining Elders’ teachings relating to community, social responsibility, environment, Land, social justice, equity, youth leadership, respect, and mutual interdependence, Dei engages African Elders and the concept of ‘Eldership’ through an anti-colonial lens. The session will focus on a discursive engagement of Elders’ cultural knowledge pointing to critical understandings of the relationships of knowledge, identity, subjectivity, history, culture and politics. In particular, the analysis is attentive to Land-based epistemologies and ontologies and critical place inquiry for anti-colonial praxis.

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