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Please see Lorraine Pangle's "Plato's Political Epistemology" in The Political Science Reviewer! https://lnkd.in/eRitf8BY

What do we (intentionally or unintentionally) subjugate or privilege when we are engaging with IK? I find this table from the paper, “Centering Indigenous Knowledges in ecology and beyond” by Gazing Wolf et al (2024) a useful starting point for engaging with Indigenous Knowledges (IK). Within the academy, discussions about IK seem to be the norm these days but it feels there is an implicit assumption that IK can be “integrated” into existing institutions and scientific disciplines and without those institutions and disciplines having to change. This assumption risks re-colonizing IK by continuing to perpetuate the privileging of western knowledges over others such as IK. A process of integration always carries with it some form of subjugation. For scholars and anyone engaging with IK, we all need to be having hard conversations with ourselves and our colleagues about our commitment to decolonizing disciplines, institutions, and ultimately ourselves. Full paper is linked here: https://lnkd.in/dJBbW4TY

Alhamdulillah Done with the 1st International Friendship Bridge Social Sciences Congress. Research Paper entitled "The Dynamics of Regional Policies and Foreign Subsidiaries Performance: A Qualitative Analysis"

This is an excellent illustration of how power imbalances impede co-production, and in the halls of the most powerful institution of Western knowledge production in the US. it also touches on the conflict between consensus (or one strict definition of it) and co-production, although I wish the article had delved further into that. For all the progress that we're making in Aotearoa, there's still such a long way to go, so this article should serve as a reminder and a warning.

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Neither 'western' science nor policy is equipped to implement knowledge co-production, largely because it implies sharing power. The struggle is real, from not being able to publish to constraints on what types of knowledge are formally recognised (from simple acknowledgement to financial recognition), my personal experience and that of many others even since the 'Millennium Ecosystem Services Assessment ' 20 years ago, has been the same, internationally and in NZ, funding holders define most parameters and what 'gets counted'. If leadership doesn't change (radically because of urgency) it will take decades to reform the system. A Science revolution, from kindness in science to the strategic positioning of new people with diverse ways of thinking in leadership is urgent.

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We need to challenge entrenched beliefs. Some metaphysical positions are simply choices that need to be challenged if we wish to correct endemic and persistent errors in our understanding of reality and the nature of our being within it. It’s inevitable you’ll meet with resistance/misunderstanding. Sometimes so entrenched that it becomes belligerent! It’s a Kuhnian thing (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) See… https://lnkd.in/eDUgfbZ4 Kuhn initially used incommensurability predominately to challenge cumulative characterizations of scientific advance, according to which scientific progress is an improving approximation to the truth, and to challenge the idea that there are unchanging, neutral methodological standards for comparing theories throughout the development of the natural sciences. See… https://lnkd.in/eZcmgSTv The best breakthroughs in science are when someone dares to challenge the groupminnd think that is held as unchallengeable dogma. It comes with a price though! ***** Some people kind of don’t understand that! 😜

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