Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength

Evidence

Well, I think it is the coupling together of the buried scholarly knowledge and knowledges that were disqualified by the hierarchy of erudition and sciences that actually gave the discursive critique of the last fifteen years its essential strength. … A historical knowledge of struggles. … And so we have the outline of what might be called a genealogy, or of multiple genealogical investigations. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 27

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Explains why both forms of subjugated knowledge must be coupled, and introduces genealogy as their union.
  • XREF: This coupling mechanism is what later postcolonial scholarship (Said, Mamdani) deploys when reading dominant narratives against subaltern archives. — connects to: Studying other cultures without repression requires rethinking knowledge and power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 93; Counterknowledge is defined negatively against established scholarly knowledges. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 146; Scholarship is a civil conversation rather than a contest over truth — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 333 (+2 more)

Broader Connections