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Scenario

How to navigate institutional pressure when Indigenous and Western researchers collaborate

Our research team includes both Indigenous knowledge keepers and Western-trained scientists, and we're supposed to be co-creating methodology for a climate study, but the grant timeline and institutional requirements keep pushing us back toward extractive research practices even though we all know better.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to decolonizing research methodology is being pulled apart by the very systems they're trying to transform.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous science and Western science in dialogue?”

Peri

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