Categorization schemes are never neutral and rarely comprehensive, but the question of how to handle them is thornier than one might think. How can we question categories and their confining walls given that those same walls also provide shelter? On the Discomfort of Shedding Ill-Fitting Categories Mar 7, 2022 Ulrike Bialas
A researcher from Scotland, by way of Germany, examines a key text offered to international scholars at UC Berkeley during their initial orientation session there. Exclusion and Erasure in ‘The Values Majority Culture Americans Live By’ Sep 3, 2020 Sarah Earnshaw
Protestant missionary schools affected the construction of "indigenous knowledge" in complex ways, including through their role in the emergence of local go-betweens, who carried this knowledge into colonial contexts. The Formation of Indigenous Knowledge in Protestant Mission Schools, 1900–1930 Aug 10, 2020 Elisabeth Engel
Presents the arguments from Stielike's longer German work on the politics of knowledge production in Migration Studies, examining 3 distinct types of migration research. The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies Jun 18, 2024 Laura Stielike