Kim TallBear
Kim TallBear | |
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Nationality | Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate |
Title | Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Doctoral advisor | Donna Haraway |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Indigenous studies, Anthropology |
Institutions | University of Alberta |
Kim TallBear is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science.[1] TallBear was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was advised by Donna Haraway[2] and Professor Emeritus James Clifford (historian).[3]
A member of the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association,[4] in late 2016 she became the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment.[5] An anthropologist specialising in the intersection of science and technology with culture, TallBear is a frequent media commentator on issues of Tribal membership, genetics and identity.[6][7][8] Her first book, Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, was released in 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press. Described as a "provocative and incisive work of interdisciplinary scholarship",[9] the book discusses the marketing of DNA testing as something capable of determining ancestry and race, and the ways in which it shades into racial science.[10]
In more recent work, including a keynote at the National Women's Studies Association meeting in 2016, TallBear has focused on sexuality, specifically on decolonizing the valorization of monogamy that she characterizes as emblematic of "settler sexualities."[11] This builds on work she has been doing in a blog written under an alter ego, "The Critical Polyamorist."[12]
External links
- Kim TallBear's website
- Dr. TallBear addresses issues in advancing science and technology opportunities for Indigenous communities in this 2018 RED Talk: Shaping Tribal Identities.
References
- ^ "Kim TallBear". Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Kim TallBear - Faculty of Native Studies" (PDF). University of Alberta. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Kim TallBear - Faculty of Native Studies" (PDF). University of Alberta. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "NAISA - Kim TallBear". Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ Clancy, Clare (December 2, 2016). "University of Alberta receives $11.9 million for Canada Research Chairs". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ Cram, Stephanie (April 10, 2016). "New era of genetic research must include more indigenous people, says Keolu Fox". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ Geddes, Linda (5 February 2014). "'There is no DNA test to prove you're Native American'". New Scientist. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Sorry, that DNA test doesn't make you Indigenous". CBC Radio. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. November 6, 2016.
- ^ Dennison, Jean (17 July 2014). "Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 28 (4). John Wiley. ISSN 1548-1387.
- ^ "Native American dna: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science". Journal of American History. 101 (3). doi:10.1093/jahist/jau638.
- ^ 2016 NWSA Friday Plenary: Decolonizing Institutions, retrieved 2017-10-13
- ^ The Critical Polyamorist