Dismantling Destructive Narratives

Summary

Yuria Celidwen, whose work combines Indigenous studies, cultural psychology and contemplative science, talks on the Holding the Fire podcast about Indigenous values and pursuing education within colonial systems. The conversation turns on reverence, responsibility and self-examination as ways to restore balance in the face of colonialism and capitalism, on “epistemological equity and ecological belonging”, and on “commitment and community”.

Rationale

Celidwen’s ‘ecological belonging’ gives a name to something we reached for in calling cognition “embodied, ecological and distributed”. Her ‘epistemological equity’ asks that such knowing be given equal standing.