Counterknowledge is defined negatively against established scholarly knowledges.

Evidence

What had to be done was to reawaken both the nobles’ memory, which had become carelessly forgetful, and the monarch’s memories, which had been carefully—and perhaps wickedly—buried, so as to reconstitute the legitimate knowledge of the king, which would provide legitimate foundations for a legitimate government. What is required is therefore a counterknowledge, a whole program of work that will take the form of absolutely new historical research. … I say counterknowledge because Boulainvilliers and his successors initially define this new knowledge and these new methods in negative terms by contrasting it with two scholarly knowledges, with the two knowledges that are the two faces (and perhaps also the two phases) of administrative knowledge. At this time, the great enemy of the new knowledge the nobility wishes to use to get a new grip on the knowledge of the king, the knowledge that has to be got rid of, is juridical knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 146

Categorization

• DEFINE: Counterknowledge: a knowledge program built against dominant knowledges, defined negatively by contrast — conceptually useful for subaltern and postcolonial counter-discourses.
• XREF: Anticipates Foucauldian genealogy and the ‘insurrection of subjugated knowledges’ that later work (including Said-style critique) builds on. — connects to: Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 27; No genuine knowledge can be derived from a state of ignorance — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1077; Factual propositions cannot be sustained merely by citing negative evidence — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 902 (+1 more)

Related

• Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength (similarity 0.86)
• Counterhistory functions to disinter truths that power has deliberately concealed (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Factual propositions cannot be sustained merely by citing negative evidence #qualifies (0.88) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 902
• No genuine knowledge can be derived from a state of ignorance #corroborates (0.85) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1077
• Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength #qualifies (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 27
• Counterhistory functions to disinter truths that power has deliberately concealed #qualifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 89