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Aandaxjoon Allen
13:20 - 13:41
“A lot of Indigenous knowledge is very place-based and rooted in specific context. And so my work pushes back against this planetary scale when it comes to discussions of climate change”
- Speaker
- Aandaxjoon Allen
- Timestamp
- 13:20 – 13:41
- Community
- Alaska News
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From the transcript
So it's hard to kind of zoom out and be able to actually understand that planetary system. Scale. And when it comes to Indigenous knowledge, it's also not necessarily the scale at which that knowledge exists. A lot of Indigenous knowledge is very place-based and rooted in specific context. And so my work pushes back against this planetary scale when it comes to discussions of climate change, because this is also something that we experience in our everyday lives and on a very, um, you know, kind of collective community level and also on an individual level.
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