360掳: Decolonizing Knowledges
This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences.
This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences.
This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences. It exposes students to the ways in which our social locations inform our world-views as well as our disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. We will probe western and Indigenous cosmologies, normative and alternative gender and sexuality structures, and imperial and decolonial racial systems. 360 participants will explore various ways knowledge can be decolonized in the academic context, including how knowledge development can be treated as an active and collaborative process.
Taught over the course of the academic year 2021-2022, students will enroll in Physics in the fall, and Literatures in English and Sociology in the spring. A film series, guest lectures, and star-gazing field trips will span the year, and a 10-day field study in Hawai驶i is tentatively scheduled for March 3-12, 2022. The cluster will learn on Hawai驶i and O驶ahu islands, visiting the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea, which is a sacred site for the K膩naka Maoli people of Hawai驶i, and consider the tensions between Indigenous cultural sovereignty, scientific inquiry, US imperialism/militarization, and environmental protection.