. As we know: the first world has knowl-edge, the third world has culture; Native Americans have wisdom, Anglo Americans have science. The need for political and epistemic de-linking here comes to the fore, as well as decolonializing and de-colonial knowledges, necessary steps for imagining and building democratic, just, and non-imperial/colonial... See more

Leigh Patel, in “Decolonising Educational Research,” names this precisely “The extractive model of knowledge production treats Indigenous and colonised peoples as sites from which to mine data, perspectives, and legitimacy, while the benefits of that extraction accrue elsewhere.”

We have, so to speak, ‘our own’ ways of being. In fact, I would translate Chatterjee into my own vocabulary: ‘we know that we have to decolonize being, and to do so we have to start by decolonizing knowledge’.