Stream 7
Indigenous Social Innovation
Chairs: Katherine McGowan (Mount Royal University, Canada), Latasha Calf Robe (Mount Royal University, Canada)
Description:
Social innovation through collaborative co-learning and meaningful consultation with stakeholders raises opportunities for decolonization and different ways of knowing to transform and renew ways of being, knowing, connecting, and doing together in a good way. Points to natural law and inter-connectedness of individuals and their environment. SI may deconstruct boundaries and dismantle colonial logics enabling a focus on large complex societal challenges, disciplinary boundaries, and assumptions of who hold agency. SI questions traditional western assumptions and obstacles to equity vested in interests. Disrupt the status quo. Attractive to those engaging in decolonization.