Mapping the Field of Anti-Colonial Discourse to Understand Issues of Indigenous Knowledges: Decolonizing Praxis
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Abstract
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I examine some of the past and current issues in anti-colonial discourse by briefly reviewing the ideas of thirteen anti-colonial scholars from different regions of the world. I relate these ideas to the discussion of knowledge production and indigenous knowledges. I also examine some critical areas that require more attention from future decolonizing scholarship and practice. With respect to scholarship, these critical areas include: the question of agency; the ambivalence towards Euro-American thought; recognizing the dynamism among knowledge systems; language accessibility; integrating indigenous ways of knowing, and dismantling the academic regime. In addition, I suggest that the questions of decolonizing one’s spirit and recognizing the importance of spirituality, often ignored, are very important to integrate in decolonizing practice. This paper concludes by challenging anti-colonial scholars to open possibilities for ourselves and others by “walking the talk᾿ in our scholarly endeavours and every day lives. FAIRE UNE CARTE DU CHAMP DU DISCOURS ANTICOLONIAL POUR COMPRENDRE LES THEMES DES CONNAISSANCES AUTOCHTONES : PRAXIS EN DECOLONISATION RESUME. Dans ce document, j’examine certaines des themes du discours anticolonial passes et presents en passant en revue rapidement les idees de treize penseurs anticoloniaux de differentes regions du monde. Je relie ces idees avec la discussion a propos de la production de connaissance et des connaissances autochtones. J’examine aussi certains espaces critiques qui requierent plus d’attention pour les etudes ou des pratiques decolonisatrices. Ces espaces critiques comprennent: la question de l‘agencement, l’ambivalence face aux pensees Euro-americaines, l’identification du dynamisme parmi les systemes de connaissances, l’accessibilite au langage, comment integrer les manieres autochtones de savoir et comment demonter le regime universitaire. En plus, j’ajouterai que la question concernant la decolonisation de l’esprit et la reconnaissance de l’importance de la spiritualite, souvent ignorees, sont tres important pour integrer des pratiques decolonisatrices. Ce document finit par lancer un defit aux chercheurs anticoloniaux d’ouvrir des possibilites pour nous-memes et par les autres, et de « marcher comme ils parlent » (« walk the talk ») dans nos efforts scolaires et notre vie de tous les jours.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".