Making space at the institutional table

Abstract

Over the past several decades, settler colonial universities have begun to grapple with their relationships with Indigenous peoples. Different contexts and histories have given rise to diverse approaches to the project of transforming universities, variously framed as decolonising, indigenising, or reconciling the university. With increasing momentum, these strategies are now altering curricula, changing research priorities, and shaping employment practices, structures, and traditions. This work is difficult: institutions founded in empire do not easily displace their Western knowledge systems to engage with the knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples; primarily white, patriarchal hierarchie..