"Indigenizing the Academy": Keynote Talk at the Sixth Annual American Indian Studies Consortium Conference, Arizona State University, February 10-11, 2005

Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

“…Under different names (indigeneity, endogeneity, autonomy, relevance, authenticity, etc.) -the hypernym of which remains indigenisation -this quest for a more complex relationship between universality and particularity has fuelled some further circulation of theories, ideas and concepts, not only between non-hegemonic countries but also from there to the centres: in India, with the early contribution of Chekki (1987;1990/91), in Africa (Adésínà, 2002;Akiwowo, 1990Akiwowo, , 1999Hountondji, 1994;Lawuyi & Taiwo, 1990;Makinde, 1990;Sitas, 2004), in Islamic countries on the Islamisation of knowledge (Abaza, 2002;Edipoğlu, 2008;Hanafi, 2021; and in North America's first nations (Mihesuah, 2006).…”