In particular, I am inspired by the care w/ which Brenna situated a "method" in the scholarship of a particular Native thinker/writer in a particular Native collective Peoples in her particular use of it. 9/ #RaceB4Race
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This careful situation is not just citational practice. In my seeing, it is good manners. It is proper circumscription. It is landed, place-based, language-based, People-based, historically located, activated by this specificity. 10/
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My concern is every time something is written/presented with this kind of care, the structures in which it is received continue to make readers/listeners think that this kind of "encounter" was an invitation to fantasize about all the other Other ways to think. 11/
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This is what I mean by that giddy feeling of difference being a trope, a trap: you should pause & think before taking that flight of fancy into analytical practices inspired in your mind by what was translated into English as "Two-Eyed" seeing. 12/
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That feeling indexes the "discovery" literature in "our periods": Mandeville's Tales, Columbus' letters, Hariot's Brief History, on and on. 13/
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So here's the main thought: if one knows that encountering the thought-ways of "the Other" gets you there, that the rush of decentering tends back towards re-appropriation & erasure of core values, analytics, ontologies, & good manners, maybe catching this is a first step. 14/
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There are so many amazing, polylingual, place-based, diverse (yes, truly!) ways to define & know (the) world(s). The number of distinct languages in Pacific Oceania alone is in the 1000s. How many different analytical methods might that make in re-reading & re-thinking? 15/
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There is no need to erase that fact through inspired flights of the (Western) mind's fancy. We study that. We don't need to replicate it. We should be familiar with this discovery/encounter trope & what it continues to do in our own scholarship. 16/
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Please let the decentering be enough. Let the briefest moment of peeking at Another Way, even seeing w/ the eyes of a foreigner, be enough. And let those who work in those "other" ways have room to do their work w/out reappropriation & recirculation in service of what oppresses.
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Ok, that was not brief. But I hope those who came along for it see some of what's at stake. The RaceB4Race community of scholars makes possible imagining disruption of these crushing structures & dynamics. Let this be my kako'o of that effort. Amama, ua noa! /fin
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Thank you for this. I’m reminded of your injunction in our reading group to avoid abstraction. To acknowledge the specifics and the local and my relation to this knowledge. 

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Exactly. And though we have often discussed the "danger of the categorical" in WSC, I don't think we have gotten into the *feel* of what decentering triggers, which leads the mind to want to categorize thru re-appropriation & use. All of your talks today gestured at that *feel*.
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