Lunch & learn with Budd Hall

Whose Knowledge Counts?  Bridging Knowledge Cultures in the Context of Climate Resilience 

*This activity will be conducted in English. 

 Budd Hall, a settler Canadian living on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples in what is called Victoria, British Colombia, Canada.   He will share insights from a recent research project called Bridging Knowledge Cultures.  This work develops the concept of knowledge cultures looking at the differences between the ways that knowledge is gathered, validated, shared, and acted upon in both academic and non-academic ways.  He will also draw attention to the publication of the new book Teaching Community-Based Participatory Research and their new project, DECODE.  He will be presenting about DECODE during the CRISES International conference between 10:15 and 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16 in the Community and social innovation session.  It looks at decolonial community-led knowledge in the context of climate resilience. 

Budd Hall is located at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria. He has been working on the theory and practice of participatory research for over 50 years. He shares Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education with his friend and colleague, Rajesh Tandon of India. He is also a poet.