indigenous people

Aliases: 
aborigines

Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History

About this issue

This volume of RCC Perspectives combines a number of essays in Canadian environmental history and related disciplines. The essays are united by a focus on cultural perceptions of Canadian environments, by an analysis of the interrelationship between nature and culture over time, and by a discussion of the human impact on natural environments.

Content

Book chapter: Pimbert, Michel, "Transforming Knowledge and Ways of Knowing"

This chapter argues that transforming knowledge requires a radical shift away from the existing top-down and increasingly corporate-controlled research system and toward an approach which devolves more responsibility and decision-making power to farmers, food workers, and consumers/citizens for the production of knowledge in the natural and social sciences.