Review article
https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2018.41.01
Deconstructing and Reconstructing. Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge
Peggy Levitt
; Department of Sociology, Wellesley College; Politics and Social Change Workshop, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Maurice Crul
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michal Buchowski
orcid.org/0000-0002-1025-5854
; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Historical Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland; Chair for Comparative Central European Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Subhadra Mitra Channa
; Professor (retd), Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Jasna Čapo
orcid.org/0000-0001-6181-2860
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Ger Duijzings
; Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History and Humanities, University of Regensburg, Regensburg; Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany
Michael P. K. Okyerefo
; Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
Maree Pardy
orcid.org/0000-0002-6401-3324
; School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
Noel B. Salazar
orcid.org/0000-0002-8346-2977
; Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Abstract
In this short piece, we argue for a fundamental reconsideration and reorganization of knowledge production. Intellectual and cultural inequality are part and parcel of socioeconomic inequality. How can we create a better world if we are not clear about the premises behind the knowledge that we have about that world and how it is produced? We need to look carefully at what is silenced and what is said out loud; at what is obscured, hiding in plain sight, or given centre stage. Not only is the task at hand to see clearly what comes into view when these embedded assumptions are excavated. It is also to create new words, new methods, and new institutions that do not repeat the same mistakes. It is a plea to train the next generation differently, so they are prepared to chart a new path toward producing, classifying, and using knowledge in more constructive and inclusive ways.
Keywords
knowledge production; decentre; post-colonial; critical; culture; global
Hrčak ID:
213528
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2018.
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