Námskeið: Raddir frumbyggja og samfélagsleg þróun

Námskeiðslýsing á ensku:

The United Nations estimates that there are over 400 million Indigenous people, with at least 5,000 distinct groups, living in over 72 countries. Indigenous peoples exhibit traditional ecological knowledge and are equipped with specific tools for community development and resource use. They are an important part of the world’s human diversity and cultural heritage. However, Indigenoues voices are often sidelined in (community) policies, regional development and resource management. In addition, their physical and cultural existence is threatened, not only due to the ongoing climate crisis.

This course is a series of weekly lectures in which researchers and practicioners from Indigenous communtiesand the field of community development present their research, current and future challenges. This course is designed to introduce students to the ideas, methods, challenges, and themes of Indigenous people in coastal communities.

The course provides an overview of Indigenous peoples’ relationships with the coast and contemporary environmental issues and their implications for Indigenous communities as well as society at large. Challenges appear among the spheres of language and culture, land rights, socioeconomics, governance, demography, education, health, social services, environment, gender, community development, repatriation of cultural property, as well as decolonization and green colonialism.

Frekari upplýsingar um námskeiðið má finna hér: https://www.uw.is/is/meistaranam/resources/namskeidislysingar/namskeidislysing-2024-2025/indigenous-voices-community-development-2

Öll meistaranámskeið sem kennd eru við Háskólasetur eru opin gestanemum, skiptinemum og fólki úr atvinnulífinu og eru hluti af tveimur alþjóðlegum þverfaglegum meistaranámsleiðum, haf- og strandsvæðastjórnun, og sjávarbyggðarfræði.