Category Pedagogy

20 Books on New Media and Social Justice
A reading list on new media and social justice that looks at how technology and social media affect society. Read these books if you want to know how new media impacts our lives.

Using the Digital Humanities in Indigenous Studies Classrooms
Six digital humanities assignments to use in Indigenous studies classrooms. Including Wikipedia, Twine, Netlytic. Audacity and more.

Writing in Relation: FNIS 300—A Summary of Engagement
Dear FNIS 300, Thank you for all of your work and attention this term. FNIS 300 can be a challenging course, both for the students and for the instructor, because it aims to weave writing fundamentals (clarity, concision, summary, citation, etc.) together with theoretical approaches to writing as developed within, or alongside, Indigenous studies. We […]

Writing in (Good) Relation: How Writing Can Build and Create Community
How do we write to and for community from within the university? This article identifies key strategies for writing for Indigenous studies courses

Decolonial DH?: The Maker Movement Across Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities
Text from my keynote for DHSI@Congress. June 5, 2019. Good morning! It is so wonderful to be here with here with you during Congress 2019. This community has meant so much to me in my career, first as a grad student and now as a teacher and researcher, so it’s an honour to be with […]

Decolonial Digital Humanities?: DH and Indigenous Studies
Indigenous studies and the digital humanities are at odds on a number of different levels, but in its emphasis on maker culture and “low-tech” development, DH offers a potential space for collaboration.

FNIS 220: Representation and Indigenous Cultural Politics
FNSP 220 explores the ways that Indigenous peoples seek to overcome the legacies of settler colonialism and claim sovereignty and self-determination through cultural production and critique. In this course, we will examine contemporary articulations of Indigenous identity, politics, and cultural traditions in the fields of literature, film, video games, and other modes of resurgent cultural […]

Submit to Novel Alliances
All too often we write papers, hand them in or deliver them at a poorly attended conference, and then leave them to collect digital dust on our laptops. Novel Alliances began as a space to honour the labour we, as students and teachers, put into research and pedagogy. We invite submissions on Indigenous issues circulating around […]