Poster #1 - Applying Daisaku Ikeda's Global Citizenship to the Case of Adivasi Reprisal

• In Event: 31.094 - MTCC Poster Session Six
  In Poster Session: 31.094-1 - Curriculum on the Truths/Ethics Borderlands

Abstract

The epistemic and ontological violence committed by ignoring the struggles and Adivasi social movements can be rectified by including the study of indigenous social movements in global citizenship educational pedagogy and curriculum. Despite common challenges that indigenous people face around the world, Adivasis are not recognized as indigenous peoples elsewhere. Furthermore, popular culture reinforces stereotypes and presents Adivasis in an extremely problematic light. This paper explores the ways in which applying Daisaku Ikeda’s philosophy of global citizenship, drawing from Adivasis social movements, can decolonize research and practice. Including the Adivasi and indigenous struggle in the global citizenship curriculum that the UN plans to universalize by 2030, is an excellent way to eternalize the history of indigenous people.

Author

• Alankrita Chhikara, Purdue University