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+Opposition between Western and indigenous epistemologies is grounded in essentialism. Criticism of “Western epistemological forms” undermines struggles against colonialism. |
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+Chris Andersen Michif (Métis) from western Canada, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies @ Alberta ‘9 “critical indigenous studies From Difference to Density” Cultural Studies Review 15 (2) p. 80-84 |
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+In two recent articles,3 American Indian studies professor Duane Champagne challenges ‘Western’ |
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+concepts and methodologies as immutable precisely where and when they are most necessary. |
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+Regarding the second, he dismisses the contextual importance of accounting for the academic institutional |
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+exists outside the life and reach of contemporary nation-states’ cultural power. |
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+Defining indigenous identity in opposition to white and western epistemologies reduces Native peoples to a caricature of everything that non-Natives are not. |
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+Valuing indigenous perspectives because of their difference results in condescending policy action and creates a static identity trap. |
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+Chris Andersen Michif (Métis) from western Canada, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies @ Alberta ‘9 “critical indigenous studies From Difference to Density” Cultural Studies Review 15 (2) p. 80-84 |
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+Champagne’s abstraction, imprecision and internal contradictions make it difficult to produce definitive conclusions about |
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+undertake an immanent deconstruction of Indigenous representations produced in and by white society. |
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+Using non-Western perspectives as a form of truth as self-evidence promotes fascism. |
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+Rey Chow Modern Culture and Media @ Brown ’98 Ethics After Idealism p.8-9 |
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+The Story of O, or, the New Fascism In the foregoing pages, |
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+task of exploring "how difference is established, how it operates, h |
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+ow and in what ways it constitutes subjects who see and act in the world |
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+further argument about its history or what Scott calls its "discursive character." |
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+Our alternative is to recognize the epistemological diversity and density of native communities. Epistemological investigation should emphasize density not absolute difference because Western epistemes assist everyday struggles against indigenous exploitation. |
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+Chris Andersen Michif (Métis) from western Canada, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies @ Alberta ‘9 “critical indigenous studies From Difference to Density” Cultural Studies Review 15 (2) p. 80-84 |
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+By way of conclusion, let me offer some thoughts on where my removal of |
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+of expertise which might nonetheless prove of central concern to the communities. C |
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+hampagne contends that ‘the issues confronting indigenous peoples are not reducible to race, |
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+the danger of producing a naive, substantialist and ultimately parochial Indigenous studies. |