I'm editing Wikipedia on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation in southeast Australia.
Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
I'm working to create a better representation of folk and events across Wikipedia, however I recognise that this work needs to be done carefully.
In 1597 Francis Bacon said "Knowledge itself is power" (ipsa scientia potestas est).[1]
And in 1984 Emmanuel Levinas said seeking to know something is akin to "seizing something and making it one’s own … an activity which appropriates and grasps the otherness of the known."[2]
And in 2011 Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson shows how those with the power to create knowledge, define and historicise, and thereby assume ownership.[3]
References edit
- ^ Bacon, Francis (1597). Meditationes Sacrae. p. 79.
- ^ Levinas, Emmanuel (1989). Hand, Sean (ed.). The Levinas Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 76.
- ^ Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (2011). "Virtuous Racial States: The Possessive Logic of Patriarchal White Sovereignty and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples". Griffith Law Review. 20 (3): 641–658. doi:10.1080/10383441.2011.10854714. ISSN 1038-3441.
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