Diasporic Knowledges in Central Asia

Olga Mun is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She researches epistemic injustice in global science and ways to build more inclusive and just research cultures. One of her recent publications focuses on non-Western ways of knowing such as South Korean philosophy of jeong (kindness) in relation to nature, humans, and higher education. You can watch her TEDx talk on decoloniality in Central Asian science at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwxUO47YYE. Olga is a zinester, her latest research project focuses on the epistemic repair in international higher education by engaging with the knowledges from the Global South in rethinking the themes of sustainability.