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Intellectual Colonization

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	== Intellectual Colonization ==		== Intellectual Colonization ==
	See also: [[Traditional Ecological ~~Knowldge~~]]		See also: [[Traditional Ecological Knowledge]]

	<Blockquote>The disappearance of local knowledge through its interaction with the dominant western knowledge takes place at many levels, through many steps. First, local knowledge is made to disappear by simply not seeing it, by negating its very existence. This is very easy in the distant gaze of the globalizing dominant system. The western systems of knowledge have generally been viewed as universal. However, the dominant system is also a local system, with its social basis in a particular culture, class and gender. It is not universal in an epistemological sense. It is merely the globalized version of a very local and parochial tradition. Emerging from a dominating and colonizing culture, modern knowledge systems are themselves colonizing.<Ref>		<Blockquote>The disappearance of local knowledge through its interaction with the dominant western knowledge takes place at many levels, through many steps. First, local knowledge is made to disappear by simply not seeing it, by negating its very existence. This is very easy in the distant gaze of the globalizing dominant system. The western systems of knowledge have generally been viewed as universal. However, the dominant system is also a local system, with its social basis in a particular culture, class and gender. It is not universal in an epistemological sense. It is merely the globalized version of a very local and parochial tradition. Emerging from a dominating and colonizing culture, modern knowledge systems are themselves colonizing.<Ref>

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	== Intellectual Colonization ==		== Intellectual Colonization ==
			See also: [[Traditional Ecological Knowldge]]

	<Blockquote>The disappearance of local knowledge through its interaction with the dominant western knowledge takes place at many levels, through many steps. First, local knowledge is made to disappear by simply not seeing it, by negating its very existence. This is very easy in the distant gaze of the globalizing dominant system. The western systems of knowledge have generally been viewed as universal. However, the dominant system is also a local system, with its social basis in a particular culture, class and gender. It is not universal in an epistemological sense. It is merely the globalized version of a very local and parochial tradition. Emerging from a dominating and colonizing culture, modern knowledge systems are themselves colonizing.<Ref>		<Blockquote>The disappearance of local knowledge through its interaction with the dominant western knowledge takes place at many levels, through many steps. First, local knowledge is made to disappear by simply not seeing it, by negating its very existence. This is very easy in the distant gaze of the globalizing dominant system. The western systems of knowledge have generally been viewed as universal. However, the dominant system is also a local system, with its social basis in a particular culture, class and gender. It is not universal in an epistemological sense. It is merely the globalized version of a very local and parochial tradition. Emerging from a dominating and colonizing culture, modern knowledge systems are themselves colonizing.<Ref>
	Shiva, V. (1993). Monocultures of the Mind—Understanding the Threats to Biological and Cultural Diversity. Indian Journal of Public Administration, 39(3), 237–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556119930304		Shiva, V. (1993). Monocultures of the Mind—Understanding the Threats to Biological and Cultural Diversity. Indian Journal of Public Administration, 39(3), 237–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556119930304

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Monocultures of the Mind

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	= Monocultures of the Mind =		= Monocultures of the Mind =

			== Intellectual Colonization ==
			<Blockquote>The disappearance of local knowledge through its interaction with the dominant western knowledge takes place at many levels, through many steps. First, local knowledge is made to disappear by simply not seeing it, by negating its very existence. This is very easy in the distant gaze of the globalizing dominant system. The western systems of knowledge have generally been viewed as universal. However, the dominant system is also a local system, with its social basis in a particular culture, class and gender. It is not universal in an epistemological sense. It is merely the globalized version of a very local and parochial tradition. Emerging from a dominating and colonizing culture, modern knowledge systems are themselves colonizing.<Ref>
			Shiva, V. (1993). Monocultures of the Mind—Understanding the Threats to Biological and Cultural Diversity. Indian Journal of Public Administration, 39(3), 237–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556119930304
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			<Blockquote>... The first level of violence unleashed on local systems of knowledge is to not see them as knowledge. This invisibility is the first reason why local systems collapse without trial and test when confronted with the knowledge of the dominant west. The distance itself removes local systems from perception. When local knowledge does appear in the field of the globalizing vision, it is made to disappear by denying it the status of a systematic knowledge, and assigning it the adjectives 'primitive' and 'unscientific'. Correspondingly, the western system is assumed to be uniquely 'scientific' and universal. The prefix 'scientific' for the modern systems, and 'unscientific' for the traditional knowledge systems has, however, less to do with knowledge and more to do with power. The models of modern science which have encouraged these perceptions were derived less from familiarity with actual scientific practice, and more from familiarity with idealized versions of which gave science a special epistemological status. Positivism, verificationism, falsificationism were all based on the assumption that unlike traditional, local beliefs of the world, which are socially constructed, modern scientific knowledge was thought to be determined without social mediation. Scientists, in accordance with an abstract scientific method, were viewed as putting forward statements corresponding to the realities of a directly observable world. The theoretical concepts in their discourse were in principle seen as reducible to directly verifiable observational claims. New trends in the philosophy and sociology of science challenged the positivist assumptions, but did not challenge the assumed superiority of western systems. Thus, Kuhn, who has shown that science is not nearly as open as is popularly thought, and is the result of the commitment of a specialist community of scientists to presupposed metaphors and paradigms which determine the meaning of constituent terms and concepts, still holds that modern 'paradigmatic' knowledge, is superior to pre-paradigmatic knowledge which represents a kind of primitive state of knowing.<Ref>Shiva, V. (1993). Monocultures of the Mind—Understanding the Threats to Biological and Cultural Diversity. Indian Journal of Public Administration, 39(3), 237–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556119930304</Ref></Blockquote>

	= Indigenous Realism =		= Indigenous Realism =

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	<blockquote>By doing so, we might move away from thinking about a single solution for the problem we face and toward thinking about our participating in an emerging world where we do not wring our hands and fail to act, but act even in little ways, in personal choices, to contribute to emerging systems - in other words, societal properties - that might slow the accelerating decline in the diversity of life we are now witnessing.<ref>Daniel R Wildcat, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, 2009, p. 54</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>By doing so, we might move away from thinking about a single solution for the problem we face and toward thinking about our participating in an emerging world where we do not wring our hands and fail to act, but act even in little ways, in personal choices, to contribute to emerging systems - in other words, societal properties - that might slow the accelerating decline in the diversity of life we are now witnessing.<ref>Daniel R Wildcat, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, 2009, p. 54</ref></blockquote>

			= Monocultures of the Mind =

	= Indigenous Realism =		= Indigenous Realism =

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Knowledge-In-Practice

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	= Knowledge-In-Practice =		= Knowledge-In-Practice =

	[[File:Knowledge-Calls-For-Action.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Imam Ali (AS) said "Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows, acts. And knowledge calls for action, so if one answers, it remains, and if not, it departs." (Nahj Al-Balagha No. 366)]]		[[File:Knowledge-Calls-For-Action.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|[[Imam Ali (AS)]] said "Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows, acts. And knowledge calls for action, so if one answers, it remains, and if not, it departs." (Nahj Al-Balagha No. 366)]]

	A major challenge facing the climate movement is the [[knowledge-action gap]]. It would be a mistake to separate from knowledge commons practical knowledge, especially knowledge embodied in practice. Taken together, such collective action, or [[mass climate action]], is the practical realization of climate knowledge commons relative to their essential purpose.		A major challenge facing the climate movement is the [[knowledge-action gap]]. It would be a mistake to separate from knowledge commons practical knowledge, especially knowledge embodied in practice. Taken together, such collective action, or [[mass climate action]], is the practical realization of climate knowledge commons relative to their essential purpose.

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	While this report showed a recognition of the need for a climate knowledge commons by an official international task-force with considerable influence, it failed to address any social factors or even recognize, let alone center, the issue of [[climate justice]] - a major difference from the emphasis and design of [[Climate Wiki]].		While this report showed a recognition of the need for a climate knowledge commons by an official international task-force with considerable influence, it failed to address any social factors or even recognize, let alone center, the issue of [[climate justice]] - a major difference from the emphasis and design of [[Climate Wiki]].

	= ~~Virtual Conference~~ =		== Academic Conferences ==

	Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference:		Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference:

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Indigenous Realism

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	Seeing that knowledge resides in life, the commons approach to knowledge construction as as a social or collective enterprise is extended "to a cooperative activity involving the other-than-human life that surrounds us" including what [[Pacha Mama]] (Mother Earth) herself is telling us.		Seeing that knowledge resides in life, the commons approach to knowledge construction as as a social or collective enterprise is extended "to a cooperative activity involving the other-than-human life that surrounds us" including what [[Pacha Mama]] (Mother Earth) herself is telling us.

	This knowledge pertains to the ecological catastrophe or "dramatic change that threatens tribal lifeways and those of most humans on the planet," and "how we might adopt life-enhancing cultures situated in a symbiotic relationship with nature." Wildcat posits that the mother tongue of Earth through which her message is delivered is best understood through many dialects known by Indigenous peoples:		This knowledge pertains to the ecological catastrophe, i.e. the "dramatic change that threatens tribal lifeways and those of most humans on the planet," and "how we might adopt life-enhancing cultures situated in a symbiotic relationship with nature." Wildcat posits that the mother tongue of Earth through which her message is delivered is best understood through many dialects known by Indigenous peoples:

	<blockquote>Indigenous peoples have paid attention to our Mother Earth, it is important to listen to what we can share with humankind. These knowledges are bound in unique lifeways - customs, habits, behaviors, material and symbolic features of culture emergent from the land and sea - and therefore have practical implications for those of humankind wanting to cooperatively and sustainably live with a place as opposed to at an address.<ref>Daniel R Wildcat, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, 2009, p. 10-17</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Indigenous peoples have paid attention to our Mother Earth, it is important to listen to what we can share with humankind. These knowledges are bound in unique lifeways - customs, habits, behaviors, material and symbolic features of culture emergent from the land and sea - and therefore have practical implications for those of humankind wanting to cooperatively and sustainably live with a place as opposed to at an address.<ref>Daniel R Wildcat, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, 2009, p. 10-17</ref></blockquote>

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Knowledge-In-Practice

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	[[File:Knowledge-Calls-For-Action.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Imam Ali (AS) said "Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows, acts. And knowledge calls for action, so if one answers, it remains, and if not, it departs." (Nahj Al-Balagha No. 366)]]		[[File:Knowledge-Calls-For-Action.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Imam Ali (AS) said "Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows, acts. And knowledge calls for action, so if one answers, it remains, and if not, it departs." (Nahj Al-Balagha No. 366)]]

	A major challenge facing the climate movement is the [[knowledge-action gap]]. It would be a mistake to separate from knowledge commons ~~either~~ practical knowledge or knowledge embodied in practice. Taken together, such collective action, or [[mass climate action]], is the practical realization of climate knowledge commons relative to ~~this~~ essential purpose.		A major challenge facing the climate movement is the [[knowledge-action gap]]. It would be a mistake to separate from knowledge commons practical knowledge, especially knowledge embodied in practice. Taken together, such collective action, or [[mass climate action]], is the practical realization of climate knowledge commons relative to their essential purpose.

	In Red Alert, [[Dr Wildcat]] describes how Indigenous ingenuity or indigenuity addresses this dilemma:		In Red Alert, [[Dr Wildcat]] describes how Indigenous ingenuity or indigenuity addresses this dilemma:

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	[[File:Knowledge-Calls-For-Action.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Imam Ali (AS) said "Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows acts. And knowledge calls for action, so if one answers it remains, and if not it departs." (Nahj Al-Balagha No. 366)]]		[[File:Knowledge-Calls-For-Action.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Imam Ali (AS) said "Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows, acts. And knowledge calls for action, so if one answers, it remains, and if not, it departs." (Nahj Al-Balagha No. 366)]]

	A major challenge facing the climate movement is the [[knowledge-action gap]]. It would be a mistake to separate from knowledge commons either practical knowledge or knowledge embodied in practice. Taken together, such collective action, or [[mass climate action]], is the practical realization of climate knowledge commons relative to this essential purpose.		A major challenge facing the climate movement is the [[knowledge-action gap]]. It would be a mistake to separate from knowledge commons either practical knowledge or knowledge embodied in practice. Taken together, such collective action, or [[mass climate action]], is the practical realization of climate knowledge commons relative to this essential purpose.