In this course, you will learn how different ways of knowing interact in the world: from megacities to arctic outposts, from export processing zones to cultural capitals, from reading on the page to human life online and artificial intelligence. How people understand and employ knowledge, govern themselves and manage their worlds is rooted in specific geographies of place, culture, and power and shapes the kind of people and societies we become.

You will investigate how globalisation is creating new knowledge configurations and alliances, opening debates around the world on relations between different and mutually contested ways of knowing, doing, and being in the world.

You will be introduced to key thinkers and studies in how we and others come to understand things in the many and various ways that we do (epistemology). This course engages critically and playfully with the western knowledge traditions of philosophy, anthropology and the broader social sciences, and is deeply informed by Indigenous and other knowledge practices, colonial histories, performance and sensory studies.

You will learn individual and collective practices of reflection and reflexivity, examining your own purposes and intentions in relationship with knowledge in rapidly changing local-global environments. Some travel is required to complete this course.