Indigenizing the Alternative Campus Tour at York University, Toronto, Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID19005382
AuthorsL Anders Sandberg (0000-0002-5966-3031, York University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume21
Issue1
Pages139-149
Publication date2024-12-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/11771801241309819
OpenAlexW4405880617
LanguageEN
References cited38

This article presents the Alternative Campus Tour at York University, Toronto, Canada, as a land acknowledgement that critically engages with the neoliberal university and contributes to the indigenization efforts on and of the campus. This article also explores the potential of re-wording common-day academic concepts and words as a means of decolonization. Words and names can lack the animacy and intimacy that are necessary in addressing the current social justice and sustainability crisis. Translated and unique words and concepts from Indigenous languages hold room for innovation. They convey a consistent message of interconnectedness between the human and more-than-human worlds. This article recognizes that some universities have adopted Indigenous-inspired or Indigenous names for various campus attributes. But this article also points to the practice of incorporating Indigenous words, concepts and expressions as routine features on the campus tour rather than confining them to specific disciplines, courses and programmes

Acknowledgement · Decolonization · Indigenization · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Service-Learning and Community Engagement

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