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Indigenous ways of knowing in auditing practice

On By FstammleIn All, Climate change, conferences, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, SámiLeave a comment

Currently the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) has one of their worldwide working group meetings in Rovaniemi, the working group of environmental auditing (WGEA). At this meeting they have a specialised session on indigenous knowledge in auditing, to which they invited me as a keynote speaker. Not only was it hopefully a useful …

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Domestication revisited?

On By FstammleIn All, conferences, Human-animal relations, Theoretical Issues2 Comments

Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for long argued that there are also social definitions of domestication. Very influential was the one by Tim Ingold (2000), who classified domestication as either characterise between a relation of trust or a relation …

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