It Will Bleed

• In Event: 14.044 - Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: 14.044-19 - Diversity and Social Change in Curriculum Studies

Abstract

This paper attempts to uncover a series of questions regarding the relationships between epistemology, knowledge production and alternative forms of knowledge. I seek to examine alternative epistemologies as a rupture to western paradigms of knowledge production, which often prioritize western ways of knowing. I suggest embodied, spiritual, cultural and other indigenous ways of knowing are legitimate even when they are illegible to Western paradigms of research. I further attempt to locate alternative epistemologies to examine the possibilities and promises of alternative systems of knowledge. The primary question undergirding this research project is: whose knowledge counts? Further, the author offers Black feminist epistemology as a counter narrative.

Author

• Derrika Hunt, University of California - Berkeley