Sam Grey
University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, Ian H. Stewart Graduate Research Fellow
Sam Grey is a researcher, author, and consultant whose practical and academic engagements focus on peacebuilding, reconciliation, memory, and historical justice. They have worked with, in, and for Indigenous communities in northern Thailand, Andean Peru, the American Upper Midwest, and along Canada’s Great Lakes, Atlantic Coast, and Pacific Coast; as well as teaching at Trent University, Six Nations Polytechnic, and the University of Victoria. Supported by the Fulbright Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Federation of University Women, Sam's graduate studies and publishing activity have focused on political virtue, axiology, and the politics of emotion; memory and historiography; non-Western political theory; anticolonial feminist and queer praxes; and methodological issues in decolonizing research.
Phone: 343-961-2133
Address: Ottawa
Phone: 343-961-2133
Address: Ottawa
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Starting from the foundations (ontology, epistemology, methodology, and axiology) of research, learners in this course will apply Hodinohsó:ni ways of knowing to research with/in Hodinohsó:ni communities. Through modules on the history of Indigenous research students will become familiar with critical issues including data sovereignty, extrinsic research, collective knowledge and intellectual property paradigms, cognitive imperialism, bias, consent, and Hodinohsó:ni intellectual rights and responsibilities. Critical thinking and self-location guide modules in the practices and ethics of fieldwork, while students build skills in Indigenous and decolonizing research methods. Emphasis is equally on the production and presentation of findings.
The brevity of the summer session makes it necessary to impose some specificity on our explorations. Consequently this is not a general survey course describing Indigenous politics broadly, but instead focuses common elements of the Indigenous-state relationship through the specific lens of British Settler colonialism. Even within this comparatively narrow ‘slice’ of the field, though, students will find a considerable array of concepts, perspectives, debates, controversies, and case studies with which to engage. In order to understand the specificity-within-commonality of Indigenous Peoples’ political struggles and mobilizations, we will begin with an overview of Settler colonialism generally, and of the British variant in particular.