Historical genealogies written outside official power generate new knowledge fields

Evidence

So the clash between the history of sovereignty and the history of the race war leads to a perpetual interaction, and to the production of fields of knowledge and of Final remark: As a result of-or despite-this interaction, the revolutionary discourse of seventeenth-century England, and that of nineteenth-century France and Europe, was on the side of -I almost said biblical history-on the side of history-as-demand, of history-as- insurrection. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 2426

Categorization

• XREF: This is the genealogy mechanism — counterhistories colliding with official historiography produce new knowledge domains, directly carries into how Islamophobia scholarship produces its counter-narrative against Orientalist historiography. — connects to: Official insider histories are less informative than newer critical scholarship — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 860; Indigenous oral records can span centuries beyond Western scientific statistics — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1615
• DEFINE: Establishes ‘counterhistory’ as a genealogical practice in action — subjugated knowledges intruding upon the official record.