Congratulations to Korrie Grant on successfully defending her MA thesis

Congratulations to Korrie Grant for successfully defending her MA thesis titled “Learning to Walk in a Good Way: A White Occupier’s Path to Decolonizing Criminology”.

Abstract

The TRC (2015) and National Inquiry (2019) call on settler-Canadian educators, researchers, students, and criminal justice system members to address the genocides against Indigenous peoples. This thesis explores how criminology can work with and for Indigenous peoples in research, what a decolonizing lens in criminology might look like, and how the discipline can walk in the good way in addressing the MMIWG. Between 2018-2024, I participated in 20 workshops, conferences and lectures and 14 conversational dialogues to explore these subjects. I then employed Absolon’s Flower Petal Framework to frame what I learned. This experience showed me settlers need to: learn where we have come from to embrace the teachings to walk in the good way; understand where we are to see the siloed stories and experience transformative learning for reconciliation (TL4R); and act in alignment with Indigenous resurgence to work on the ‘next now’ for the next seven generations.