Ausi Told Me

Ausi Told Me

Keeping Feminist ‘Ausi’ Khoi-San Climate Change Resilience Knowledge Alive In The Cape Region Of South Africa

Author: June Bam

Published by coalition members Educere Alliance here: Ausi Told Me | educere

We are no longer able to ignore the devastating impact of climate change or the important Iindigenous knowledges of ecologies that have been systematically erased (directly or indirectly; willfully or unintentionally). With fires currently ravaging Europe and temperatures reaching extra-ordinary levels, there is both vocal and silent agreement in societies at large that it can’t be ‘business as usual’. One area of intervention is within Iindigenous feminist methodologies which attempt to make important global connections to address the limitations of Eurocentric approaches to knowledge production about the deep pasts and our therefore limited understanding of interconnected links to present crises. How could such understandings assist us in attaining sustainability for all humanity in a shared and increasingly precarious earth?

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