A professor at a university in Canada is receiving a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), one of the most desirable research awards in the country, for the following:
"[redacted]'s research program will analyze the interdisciplinary contours of Black Studies and the emergence of ecological and aesthetic themes in this field. Theorizing interdisciplinarity as a decolonial epistemology and methodology, the project uniquely decenters self-identity and emphasizes collaborative and creative knowledge-making as entwined with physiography. Specifically, drawing out and employing methodologies in Black Studies will uncover a sustained engagement with how the racial dimensions of climate catastrophe are creatively theorized in black communities."
As far as I can tell, this means that they are researching how black teens make tiktoks about climate change???????