Abstract
This chapter examines the academy as a hegemonic site of knowledge production that has largely ignored and dismissed indigenous ways of being in and relating to the world – or what I call epistemes. Drawing on Spivak's notion of sanctioned ignorance, I argue that the academy is characterized by an epistemic ignorance which prevents it from properly “profess[ing] its profession” (Derrida). Instead of liberal multicultural efforts of “knowing the other,” academics have a responsibility to do their homework and begin to learn from indigenous and other epistemes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A companion to critical and cultural theory |
| Editors | Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, Justin Sully |
| Place of Publication | Hoboken |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
| Pages | 313-326 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118472293 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-118-47231-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| MoEC publication type | A3 Part of a book or another research book |
Keywords
- indigenous scholarship
- worldview
- epistemology
- knowledge systems
- indigenous criticisms of the academy
- colonialism/imperialism
Field of science
- Social policy
- Environmental sciences