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Knowledge Hierarchies & Decolonizing Our Thinking | Critical Reflections on "Skeptical Witchcraft"

Hello lovely humans! I'm back with another video... I vaguely remember having said that my next video would be a lot shorter than usual... whoops. This video is one that I struggled to make, and to be honest I don't think I really said everything I wanted to say, or exactly in the way I wanted to say it. I feel like there's a lot I didn't properly convey here, so if anything is confusing I apologize, and would of course be happy to chat more about it. This video has come out of doing some critical reflection on this channel, and really thinking about what kind of content I want to be putting out there. It gets into some issues with "intellectual imperialism" and the hierarchies of knowledge perpetuated by Western universalism. I've been thinking a lot lately about the importance of decolonizing my work as a scholar, and I think that needs to apply to my work as a content creator as well. *SOME IMPORTANT NOTES:* I think maybe I wasn’t super clear about this in the video, but I want to emphasize the fact that I’m not trying to critique Western scientific knowledge itself here, or attempting to disregard its importance in any way. I’m critiquing the way Western understandings of intellect and reason are often framed as superior to other knowledge systems, and placed in this hierarchical relationship with them. I am NOT trying to say that we should just do away with Western science, and I’m not trying to undermine all the good its done for us. I am, however, trying to point out how scientific reason and Enlightenment rationality are implicated in ongoing (neo)colonialism and systems of inequality. Historically, Western science most definitely played a role in colonial conquest, and continues to be wrapped up with ideas of mastery and control in some ways (see my video on religion & science!    • The Religion vs. Science Debate & Some Iss...  ) ALSO, I don’t think I made this point well enough in the video, but I’m NOT trying to say that indigenous and other non-Western knowledges are incompatible with Western scientific knowledge. This is definitely not the case, and it’s important to recognize that Western science is often *complimentary* to these non-Western perspectives. Different knowledge systems and worldviews do not by any means need to clash with one another, or be antithetical to one another. For many indigenous peoples, learning about Western science is about the addition of MORE knowledge to their understandings of the world, but NOT “better” knowledge. Western perspectives can exist harmoniously alongside indigenous and other non-Western perspectives (or “non-scientific”/spiritual perspectives)—there doesn’t have to be any conflict between them! I should have been a lot clearer about that in the video, but hopefully this makes sense! :) Thank you so much for watching!! References & relevant sources for this video (and texts I would really recommend checking out!): Cadena, Marisol de la. 2015. Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Duke University Press. Clement, Vincent. 2019. "Beyond the Sham of the Emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the Relationship of Indigenous Epistemologies, Knowledges, and Geography Through Decolonizing Paths." Progress in Human Geography 43, no. 2: 276-294. Coulthard, Glen. 2014. Red Skin White masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press. Cruikshank, Julie. 2005. Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. UBC Press. Donald, Dwayne Trevor. 2009. "Forts, Curriculum, and Indigenous Métissage: Imagining Decolonization of Aboriginal-Canadian Relations in Educational Contexts." First Nations Perspectives: The Journal of the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre 2, no. 1: 1-24. https://www.mfnerc.org/wp-content/upl... Simpson, Leanne. 2017. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press. Todd, Zoe. 2016. "An Indigenous Feminist's Take on the Ontological Turn: 'Ontology' is Just Another Word for Colonialism." Journal of Historical Sociology 29, no. 1: 4-22. Vizenor, Gerald. 2009. Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance. University of Nebraska Press. Watts, Vanessa. 2013. "Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour!)." Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2, no. 1: 20-34. Willerslev, Rane. 2007. Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood Among the Siberian Yukaghir. University of California Press. Follow me on Instagram:   / skeptical.witch   Music in this video is Blossom by Lakey Inspired:    • Blossom   #decolonize #religiousstudies #paganism