Podcast Ideas
The key things I would want to discuss in my portion of the podcast are positionality and the influences of colonialism. With regards to positionality, there's the how and why the author marks people, other examples of it in science and the examples the author uses to highlight the importance of positionality. The author incorporates positionality, influenced by indigenous North American approaches, by 'marking' people in the way that they 'mark' themselves. This is done with the tribe or settler position placed in brackets after the first time their name is mentioned. The reason the author does it is because indigenous authors often acknowledge their own tribal contexts in the way that non-indigenous authors don't. The exclusion of settler positionalities further perpetuates Whiteness as the default. One of the examples that the author uses was from when they were collecting fish guts for research from fisherman, functioning under the assumption that it was waste material. This assumption was challenged when a local indigenous person asked for the fish guts to cook.
That example was also used to highlight how colonial thinking seeps into every facet of our decision-making. They also talk about how other conservation methods, like recycling plants, still function off of colonial entitlement to indigenous land. The author discusses the many different ways that this issue manifests itself.
In terms of structure, what I would really like to include in this podcast is a conversational dynamic to it. I feel like this approach is the most engaging method of this for the audience. This approach also allows for me, as the speaker, to better explore the depth of my knowledge in a way that I wouldn't be able to with just my own planning. I do think it would probably be beneficial to have a handful of pre-planned questions for each person's topic just to maximise the cohesion of the podcast and minimise the amount of editing in post required
I think it's really interesting that you've considered how the author uses indigenous North American approaches to acknowledge their own tribal contexts by 'marking' people in the way that they 'mark' themselves. It's a clever way to counter the exclusion of settler positionalities and perpetuation of Whiteness as the default.
ReplyDeleteThe example the author uses about collecting fish guts for research, assuming it was waste material, and then being challenged by a local indigenous person asking for the fish guts to cook, paints a strong picture of how colonial thinking presents itself into almost every facet of our thinking without even realizing.
The point you made about colonial thinking, and how it seeps into the decisions we make is something I found so intriguing (it is something I had never thought of). I am excited to hear you expand on this more when we record the podcast. I think it is a good idea to have a more conversational feel to the podcast (especially for the audience we are trying to age). Having a handful of pre-planned questions is a good idea because it allows for us to interview each other (as well as explore the questions in accordance to our knowledge from our books).
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