Unsettling Knowledge Inequities
The Unsettling Knowledge Inequities podcast features conversations with diverse and multigenerational knowledge holders. Episodes aim to interrogate the politics of knowledge production and circulation and the global power dynamics that shape it - as well as highlight alternative models and collaborations between distinct knowledge traditions.
Episodes
16 episodes
Digital Redlining, Friction-Free Racism and Luxury Surveillance in the Academy
In the final episode of our third season, we are joined by Chris Gilliard, a professor and scholar who is highly regarded for his critiques of surveillance technology, privacy, and the invisible but problematic ways that digital technolog...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 5
•
42:48
The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Publishing
One of the key themes that intersects across all of our episodes this season is the surveillance and highly extractive and harmful economic practices of big corporations in the academic publishing sector, whose artificial intelligence tools are...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 4
•
58:19
The High Cost of Knowledge Monopoly
Over the past 20 years, the academic publishing market has undergone changes that have led us to a juncture where power is concentrated in the hands of a handful of big companies.To help us understand how this came to be and its implicat...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 3
•
40:09
Data Cartels & Surveillance Publishing
Over the last years, as the process of conducting research and scholarship has moved more and more online, it has become clear that user surveillance and data extraction has crept into academic infrastructure in multiple ways.
•
Season 3
•
Episode 2
•
44:30
AI & Automating Knowledge Inequity
In our third season, we continue our goal of interrogating the politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation - but with a special focus on exploring the implications of the widespread and often uncritical use of Artificial Intellig...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 1
•
47:58
Early Career Researchers: Open Science & Activism
In the last episode of our second season we are in conversation with two early career researchers and activists - Denisse Albornoz and Antoinette Foster. They reflect on how the values of openness, equity, safety, accountability and much ...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 5
•
41:40
Indigenous Epistemologies & Open Science: Learning from the Land
In November 2020, the world’s first Virtual Indigenous Circle on Open Science and the Deco...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 4
•
1:07:26
Budapest Open Access Initiative: 20 Years On
Twenty years ago the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) released a statement of strategy and commitment to advocating for and realizing open access infrastructures across diverse i...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 3
•
46:53
.jpg)
Knowledge Democracy & Open Science
In this episode we speak with Rajesh Tandon, founder of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) based in New Delhi, India, and Budd Hall, Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria in Cana...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 2
•
29:32
.jpg)
Perspectives on the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation
In our second season, we continue our mission of interrogating the politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation - but with a specific focus on open science and open access. In this first episode we speak with Eleanor Haine, Progra...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 1
•
36:45
Art in the Service of Public Knowledge
In the final episode of our first season, we are in conversation with artist Jasmeen Patheja. Jasmeen is the founder of BlankNoise - a multi city /...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 5
•
51:06
Caste Abolition: Building Power Through Epistemic Justice
In our fourth episode we are in conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a technologist, transmedia artist and activist. Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, a South Asian power-bui...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 4
•
38:31
Reducing Health Inequity Through Local Knowledge Production: The Case of African Health Sciences
In our third episode we are in conversation with Dr. James Tumwine, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health who recently retired from the School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences in Makerere University at Mulago Hospital in Kampal...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 3
•
46:46
Centering Indigenous Knowledge: Lil’wat Principles of Teaching and Learning
In our second episode we are in conversation with Dr. Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams, one of the leading Indigenous woman educators and scholars in Canada who has long championed decolonial education, the centering of Indigenous knowledge systems an...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 2
•
47:38
