{"id":104,"date":"2019-11-05T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:29:19","slug":"response-paper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/2019\/11\/05\/response-paper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Response paper #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In response to Villeneuve\u2019s film Arrival<\/em>, Cindy\nCharleyboy\u2019s talk on \u201cAcknowledging the Sacred\u201d and Linda Smiths \u201cResearch\nThrough Imperial Eyes\u201d I have come to new conclusions about where strengths\nwill lie in my grad project. Present schooling in North America is a structured\nwesternized model that has built upon Plato\u2019s idea of academy and progressed\nthrough means of western expansion and in such has strong colonial undertones that\nfor a long time have gone unacknowledged. This is partly because they are subtly\ningrained in our world views and unless you start engaging with how you individually\nsee the world you will remain ignorant. Part of the reason I am in the Liberal Studies\nprogram at Capilano University is because of the new way that interdisciplinary\nstudies approaches the idea of academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The social side of research: perception, approach, viewpoint,\nthese concepts are patrolled by our own biases, our world view, the way we\nconceptualize experience. Personalization in our project can be a strength but\nwe must also be aware of how to present our work respectfully. As a researcher,\nor rather as a human, we think about how others will perceive of our work, what\ncomments people will make and how thoughts produced by other\u2019s opinions may\npoison conclusions and lead research astray as we attempt to fit a norm. Are we\ndoing our research for ourselves? For others? For whom? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our present world the data that we present is immortal.\nPapers we write, posts we make, the selves we project (or prefect) has created\na digital rendering of our being so any part of it can be retrievable. In the\nLBST program at CapU we are required to log and maintain our own blog sites,\nwhere much of this course work will be posted. Because of the everlasting\nnature of digital presence, the value of integrity within an assignment is vital.\nFor me, climate change and environmental issues are the topic of my research.\nMy grad project will be a podcast where I convene social issue with my own\nexploration (via the scientific method) and assemble research that contributes\nto the field in a meaningful way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep\nanalysis of communication presented in the film Arrival <\/em>made me think of\nhow the formation of my own projects content will be perceived. This is highly\nrelevant to a podcast as I am limited by my mode of media. Clarity and\nunderstanding will need to be formulated into the interview process I construct\nthrough carefully worded questioning where each word in my questions will need\nto be considered. Much like in Arrival<\/em> where linguist Louise Banks breaks down the individual words in a\nquestion and explains the concepts they contain and possible misinterpretations\nthat can be had.  The point of my podcast\nwill be to convey knowledge as such correct communication and surprisingly\nwatching Arrival<\/em> led me to begin to think of just how vital true\nunderstanding is to conveying perception. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, historical context has a restructuring mechanism\nthat makes me think of the \u2018othering\u2019 that occurs when relating my world to the\nalready exiting presence of culture upon the lands that we now occupy. By\n\u2018othering\u2019 or the \u2018other\u2019 I refer to another culture of person who is different\nfrom your own and thus unknown. The acquirement of knowledge by western\nthinkers concerning the over riding of indigenous culture and institutionalized\n\u2018othering\u2019 results in a restructuring of culture. Historical conceptualizations\nof indigenous led to an anthropological discourse for dominance and westernized\nprojection of ideals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of my project, I think\u2026. How do I own this? Make\nthis apparent? Make my audience believe and aware of the issue at hand?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My answer is: being honest and listening with intent. I need\nto showcase and allow for every voice to be heard on my topics for my podcast.\nI need to acknowledge my biases\u2019 and any perceived biases of my interviewees\nand allow for the views of the \u2018other\u2019 to be allowed to circumvent my\nnarrations. Awareness of my project limitations will allow me to fill gaps\nwithin knowledge and through drafts hopefully I will be able to isolate and\nconstruct a deeper understanding of topic debate. Awareness and being alert for\nthe ingrained ideals of colonialism are the best way I can think of to combat\nthese terrible truths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the tutorials this term I am looking into travel\nwriting and the \u2018othering\u2019 of cultures that colonialism created. It highlights differences and the lack\nof acknowledgement of the real \u2018other\u2019, through the westernized image of it and\nthe occident. The acquirement of knowledge by Europeans concerning the \u2018other\u2019\nis constructed through means of a domination over it, homogenization of the\n\u2018other\u2019, and post-colonial ideals of his own role within the culture.\nPerception is determinant of the \u2018other\u2019. As a student of psychology, I know\nthat our reality is constructed by perception, but perception is influenced by\neducation, experience, values, culture and friends and family. In such this\ncourse and the analysis done in this paper is a means of indigenizing my\nacademic goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presence\nof colonial ideals is more apparent then not when you start to look deeper and\nlisten more intently. This is one of the reasons why Reconciliation and Indigenizing\nthe Academy is so important at Cap. Speakers like Cindy Charleyboy open\nconnection barriers that you may not even know were present. And that\u2019s ok, it\u2019s\nthe process of learning. Understanding that different cultures have completely\ndifferent world views then your own is one step towards understanding another\nworld view without imposing yours against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\ntragic case of competing world views history shows that the westernized\ncolonialism has steamrolled their world onto others. The terrible ramifications\nof this are now understood and unfortunately a lot of culture is already lost,\nand damages done. Reconciliation of the Academy, to me, is a means of opening a\ndialogue with the \u2018other\u2019 and coming to understand, with resolved intent, the\nmeans of communication and perception that are so very different then possibly\nmy own. In my current project that is so rich in interviews my intent is just\nthat, to listen, to engage, and to allow for intellectual space of conversation\nwhere the ideas of \u2018other\u2019 are more important then the already known. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Villeneuve\u2019s film Arrival, Cindy Charleyboy\u2019s talk on \u201cAcknowledging the Sacred\u201d and Linda Smiths \u201cResearch Through Imperial Eyes\u201d I have come to new conclusions about where strengths will lie in my grad project. Present schooling in North America… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/devonsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}