Listen "Frances Widdowson"
Episode Synopsis
Frances Widdowson was a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary until 2021, when the university fired her. Frances gives us her account of the circumstances of her dismissal. She also talks to us about ideas such as 'land-based knowledge' (which she has long criticized) and about the controversy over Canada's residential schools.Frances' website: https://wokeacademy.info/Frances' paper on 'land-based knowledge': https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781802208542/book-part-9781802208542-47.xmlIan Gentles' long-read on residential schools: https://quillette.com/2023/08/02/not-a-genocide/
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