Traditional Knowledge (TK)

Strategic translation: pollution, data, and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge by Sarah Blacker We look to ‘Water is a living thing’ as a …

Strategic Translation Strategic translation: pollution, data, and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge by Sarah Blacker We look to ‘Water is a living thing’ as a case study. Here, two First Nations communities “chose to partially translate their knowledge into data because doing so enabled them to enter into dialogue with policy-makers — with data as the lingua franca - to participate in science, and to retain control over their own data.” This is an act of protest against the settler colonial state. Data as a form of partial translation which serves as a boundary object Science is not…

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