Kerstin Knopf

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Jahrgang 60 (2016), Ausgabe 2-3, Seite 179 - 200

Since the late 1990s, Indigenous scholars have called for an ‘indigenizing of the academy’ (Mihesuha and Wilson 2004), integrating Indigenous knowledges into discourses and practices of institutions of higher education worldwide. The calls to integrate Indigenous and Western knowledge discourses and practices mainly come from Indigenous researchers throughout the world. They indict the ‘self-evident’ primacy of Western knowledges and presumptuous disregard for Indigenous knowledges in universities that re-produce colonial dominance and epistemic violence. This article analyzes the relationship between Indigenous and Western knowledge systems and practices. It also discusses the Indigenous concepts of Saytk’ilhl Wo’osim’ (resource-sharing), Enowkinwixw (consensus-finding), Tsawalk, and Haḥuułism (a synthesis of Indigenous and Western philosophies articulating the unity of creation) and suggests their applications in the political and social sciences, economics, and environmental studies.

Charlotte A. Lerg, Michael Koch, Jasper M. Trautsch, Nassim Balestrini, Hartmut Lutz, Kerstin Knopf, Katharina Christ, Ian Afflerbach, Astrid Franke, Daniel Schaefer, Birgit Däwes, Christine Marks

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Jahrgang 60 (2016), Ausgabe 1, Seite 169 - 169