Articulating a Postcolonial Impulse in Knowledge and Culture Analysis (APCIICKA)
One of the not so obvious outcomes of work like that of YACI is the disappearance of categories that seem to many to be universal analytic categories, in particular categories like ‘nature’ and ‘society’. Those foundation categories of Western analysis disappear and thus in YACI we see ourselves as undertaking non-foundationist studies and suggest that this is work that explicitly attends to cultivating a postcolonial impulse. Theorising the knowledge and culture work of YACI projects is an emergent project that we are pursuing in part with students and younger researchers in the academy.
Helen Verran, “On Avoiding Hardening Categories: Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Media (2003-6), and HMS Investigator (1800-5)” OnAvoiding Abstract.pdf An earlier version of this paper was published as “On Assemblage: Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Media (2003-6), and HMS Investigator (1800-5)” in Assembling Culture, Tony Bennett and Chris Healy (eds). Routledge: London, 2011.
Michael Christie “Generative research methodology and bottom-up policy work”. SPiLL Seminar at CDU, 7th September 2011(Link to pdf)
In
October 2011 Helen and Michael held a reading workshop with young scholars
in Healesville. (Matthew Campbell (CDU), Frida Harstrup (Univ of Copenhagen),
and Alison Marlin (Univ of Melbourne) ) The reading we set ourselves concerned
the figure of the researcher who struggles for generative non-foundationism
in cultivating a postcolonial impulse. We read papers produced across nearly
40 years by the feminist philosopher Kathryn Pyne Addelson.