... anti-mining campaigns traditional knowledge political ontology materiality Quilish ...

... organic intellectual traditional intellectual historical bloc knowledge production Edward Said ...

...”). Crucially, the knowledges that shaped the Quilish campaigns were not part of an already existing “indigenous tradition,” nor were they simply a set of meanings that environmentalists, scientists, and protestors assigned to a preexisting thing. Rather, their discursive practices and the mountain’s material...

... This chapter explores Gramsci’s understanding of the nature and role of intellectuals. It explains his distinction between organic and traditional intellectuals, noting that Gramsci’s primary concern is not the individual thinker, but the social processes by which knowledge is produced...

... as “sacred mountain”). Crucially, the knowledges that shaped the Quilish campaigns were not part of an already existing “indigenous tradition,” nor were they simply a set of meanings that environmentalists, scientists, and protestors assigned to a preexisting thing. Rather, their discursive practices...

... of knowledge that transcended their cultural framework and promised inclusion in a broader cosmopolitan community. Thus, they were complicit in constructing ecological science as universal knowledge that downplayed the importance of understanding the specific philosophical and epistemological traditions...

... but overlapping metropolitan imaginings of local knowledge and colonial negotiations of these metropolitan desires. Chang Hyŏkchu Murayama Tomoyoshi The Tale of Ch’unhyang Korea Boom colonial nostalgia tradition ...

... eruptions and the impacts of frosts were widespread in traditional Porgeran cultural knowledge. This chapter examines the implications of a changing environment due to increases in the number of El Niños and in population to understand the limits of adaptive knowledge. Looking at climate change and forest...

... In this chapter, Matthew J. Smith asks what was it about C. L. R. James’s intellectual environment in Trinidad that drove his conviction to pursue a study of the Haitian Revolution so passionately? What was James’s knowledge about that event at that point in his life, and what purpose did...

... In this chapter, Matthew J. Smith asks what was it about C. L. R. James’s intellectual environment in Trinidad that drove his conviction to pursue a study of the Haitian Revolution so passionately? What was James’s knowledge about that event at that point in his life, and what purpose did...

... A hallmark of the postgenomic era is an imperative that scientists elucidate the role of the environment in shaping the processes and outcomes of gene action. This paper examines the efforts of scientists in two very different epistemological traditions to meet this challenge. Exposomics...

... concerned with the sonorities of religious practice. Key themes include the following: how phenomenologies of sound have provided a key point of reference for theological reflection in different traditions; the role of listening within practices of religious and ethical attunement; the acoustic and musical...

... This short interstitial chapter examines the practice of Marshallese wave piloting, a tradition of ocean navigation that uses emplaced readings of sea wave diffraction patterns, mapped on “stick charts” and sensed from voyaging canoes, to travel around what Epeli Hau'ofa has called the “Sea...

... history, formal and informal knowledge practices have been mobilized toward the survival of Islam as a tradition and toward the material and spiritual survival of Muslims themselves. The introduction outlines the specificity of the geographic, historical, and sociocultural infrastructures of the Bay Area...

...” and “culturalist” activism. The chapter discusses efforts to revive and share knowledge about Mayan mathematics, including daykeeping and base-20 calculations, in the context of what became popularly known as “the Maya apocalypse” of 2012 and situates them in relation to the ongoing apocalypse of the genocide...

... of a Gopi . This chapter considers how far it may be read as a kind of personal narrative, an evocation of the self. Does the referencing of an established narrative tradition give the author’s feelings and experiences, especially as a Muslim woman devoted to Krishna at a time of increasing religious...

... of adaptive strategies. Mitigation practices for volcanic eruptions and the impacts of frosts were widespread in traditional Porgeran cultural knowledge. This chapter examines the implications of a changing environment due to increases in the number of El Niños and in population to understand the limits...

... of the nature and role of intellectuals. It explains his distinction between organic and traditional intellectuals, noting that Gramsci’s primary concern is not the individual thinker, but the social processes by which knowledge is produced and distributed. Intellectuals in the notebooks are defined...