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Theorizing Undisciplined Inquiry 

These entries provide an account of what it is to do undisciplined inquiry, and describe methods, strategies, and/or processes for doing undisciplined inquiry.

Archibald, J.-A. 2008. Indigenous Storywork. University of British Columbia Press.

Publisher Abstract: Indigenous oral narratives are an important source for, and component of, Coast Salish knowledge systems. Stories are not only to be recounted and passed down; they are also intended as tools for teaching. Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, establishing a receptive learning context, and engaging in holistic meaning-making.

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Atleo, E. R. / Umeek. 2005. Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview. University of British Columbia Press.

Publisher Abstract: Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily distanced from the metaphysical aspects of existence, such as spirit, faith, and intuition. In Tsawalk, hereditary chief Umeek introduces us to an alternative indigenous worldview -- an ontology drawn from the Nuu-chah-nulth origin stories. Umeek develops a theory of "Tsawalk," meaning "one," that views the nature of existence as an integrated and orderly whole, and thereby recognizes the intrinsic relationship between the physical and spiritual. By retelling and analyzing the origin stories of Son of Raven and Son of Mucus, Umeek demonstrates how Tsawalk provides a viable theoretical alternative that both complements and expands the view of reality presented by Western science. Tsawalk, he argues, allows both Western and indigenous views to be combined in order to advance our understanding of the universe. In addition, he shows how various fundamental aspects of Nuu-chah-nulth society are based upon Tsawalk, and what implications it has today for both Native and non-Native peoples. A valuable contribution to Native studies, anthropology, and philosophy, Tsawalk offers a revitalizing and thoughtful complement to Western scientific worldviews.

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Bartlett, C., Marshall, M. & Marshall, A. 2012 Two-Eyed Seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing. J Environ Stud Sci 2, 331–340

Entry asks the question - in developing curricula that weave in indigenous ways of knowing, what can curriculum developers do to ensure that their efforts remain true to indigenous ways of knowing and indigenous knowledge systems? Entry discusses development of and problems with the Integrative Sciences, a science degree program at Cape Breton University, run by members of the Mi-Kmaw community of the Eskasoni First Nation. Authors discuss with lessons learned from their experience, including being guided by two-eyed seeing, which authors claim is their most “profound” lesson (p. 334, 335). Authors then discuss how two-eyed seeing can be pursued, and explains how two-eyed seeing as an ongoing process that enables recognition of indigenous knowledge systems. Entry then discusses how two-eyed seeing fits with broader calls for transdisciplinary research, and considers some critiques of the concept.

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Burkhart, B. 2019. Indigenizing Philosophy Through the Land: a Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures. Michigan State University Press.

Author Abstract: Land is key to the operations of coloniality, but the power of the land is also the key anticolonial force that grounds Indigenous liberation. This work is an attempt to articulate the nature of land as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing. As a foundation of valuing, land forms the framework for a conceptualization of Indigenous environmental ethics as an anticolonial force for sovereign Indigenous futures. This text is an important contribution in the efforts to Indigenize Western philosophy, particularly in the context of settler colonialism in the United States. It breaks significant ground in articulating Indigenous ways of knowing and valuing to Western philosophy—not as artifact that Western philosophy can incorporate into its canon, but rather as a force of anticolonial Indigenous liberation. Ultimately, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land shines light on a possible road for epistemically, ontologically, and morally sovereign Indigenous futures.

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Cordova, V. 2004. “Ethics: From an Artist’s Point of View,” in A. Waters (ed.) American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays, pp. 251-5.

Project Abstract: In this entry Cordova discusses two very different conceptions of an artist. The “Western” conception sees artists as a disruptive force to their society, an individual who is alienated from their society and whose role is to unveil the chaos that is masked by their society’s norms. The “Native American” conception sees artists as akin to healers or scientists. The artist seeks knowledge, and is responsible to their community for the works they create, and Cordova describes how the artist is socialized into this responsibility. Cordova highlights how these conceptions are intertwined with different metaphysical pictures of reality, and that in the Native American worldview reality is fundamentally ordered, though always changing; given this, there can be no distinction between ethics and aesthetics.

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Davies, T., Isakjee, A., and Obradovic-Wochnik, J. 2022. “Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border,” in Annals of the American Association of Geographers 113, pp. 1-20.

Author Abstract: Borders are sites of epistemic struggle. Focusing on the illegal tactic of the “pushback,” which is routinely deployed by state authorities to forcefully expel asylum seekers from European Union territory without due process, this article explores the uneven politics of knowledge that helps to support or unsettle this clandestine border violence. Drawing on long-term qualitative research on the Croatia–Bosnia border, including interviews with pushback survivors and activists, as well as a database of border violence reports, we explore the competing truth claims and epistemologies that help to conceal, or counter, the pushback regime. Informed by postcolonial perspectives and contributing to political geographies of violence, we argue that “epistemic violence” (Spivak 1988) is a central feature of contemporary borders. We propose that epistemic borderwork is regularly used by state authorities to silence unwanted voices, undermine insurgent perspectives, and stifle the capacity of refugees to draw attention to their own mistreatment. In opposition to this injustice, activists are documenting, mapping, and archiving pushback survivor testimony to construct a counternarrative of refusal, which subverts the harmful knowledge claims of state authorities. In doing so, refugees and activists create epistemic friction, which helps to resist the ontological violence of borders, and “pushes back” against the pushback regime.

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Diatta, M. 2023. “Undisciplining Who We Bring to the Academic Table: Practical Tactics to Accompany Critical Creative Inquiry,” in Parse 17.https://parsejournal.com/article/undisciplining-who-we-bring-to-the-academic-table

Project Abstract: In this article Diatta discusses undisciplined inquiry and creative practices in the context of citation practices, and asks, how can we repurpose creative practice towards the specific aim of undisciplining? Diatta pursues this question in order to challenge the traditional expectations that academic work arises from a literature review, is produced through a specific methodology, and contributes knowledge to a specific field or discipline. Diatta also gives an account of undisciplining, saying that “I use the term undisciplining to mean “a liberating act of temporarily suspending disciplinary regimes and practices in order to develop creative research (questions, ideas, and approaches)”.” Diatta disinguishes undisciplined inquiry from transdisciplinary inquiry, saying that what characterizes the former is “a fundamentally interior, critical, dark, disorderly place that makes it possible to imagine movements otherwise.”

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Frankl, V. 1946. Man’s Search for Meaning. Part I Trans. Ilse Lasch. Edn. of 2006. Beacon Press.

Publisher Abstract: Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

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Jenkins, C. 2022b. “Love as a Gift Economy,” in New Philosopher 35.

Project Abstract: In this essay Jenkins uses Robin Wall Kimmerer’s framework of the Gift Economy to reconceptualize practices of romantic love. Jenkins discusses the capitalist commodification of women’s care, love, attention, and reproductive labour as scarce resources that must be hoarded and controlled, and she explores what it might mean if love were instead construed as a gift, drawing a comparison with a statement made by a rainforest hunter-gatherer, that “I store my [excess] meat in the belly of my brother.”

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Kimmerer, R. W. 2022. “The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance,” in Emergence Magazine.

Author Abstract: As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?

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King, T. 2003. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. House of Anansi Press. Also available asaudio lectures.

Publisher Abstract: "Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling. With wry humor, King deftly weaves events from his own life as a child in California, an academic in Canada, and a Native North American with a wide-ranging discussion of stories told by and about Indians. So many stories have been told about Indians, King comments, that "there is no reason for the Indian to be real. The Indian simply has to exist in our imaginations." That imaginative Indian that North Americans hold dear has been challenged by Native writers - N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, Robert Alexie, and others - who provide alternative narratives of the Native experience that question, create a present, and imagine a future. King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilties. "Don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now."

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Kirk, G., J., Raven, J., and Schofield, M. 1983. The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press.

Publisher Abstract: Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide the basis for a detailed critical study of the principal individual thinkers of the time. Besides serving as an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek philosophy and in the history of science, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in philosophy, theology, the history of ideas and of the ancient world, and indeed to anyone who wants an authoritative account of the Presocratics.

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Liboiron, M. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism. Duke University Press.

Publisher Abstract: In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly Métis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations. Liboiron draws on their work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)—an anticolonial science laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada—to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism but a violent enactment of colonial land relations that claim access to Indigenous land. Liboiron's creative, lively, and passionate text refuses theories of pollution that make Indigenous land available for settler and colonial goals. In this way, their methodology demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible but is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.

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Loveless, N. 2019. How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation. Duke University Press.

Publisher Abstract: In recent years, the rise of research-creation—a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right—has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles. In How to Make Art at the End of the World Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives—from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students—to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Championing experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, research-creation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social and ecological justice.

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Ludwig, D. and El-Hani, C. 2025. Transformative Transdisciplinarity: An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

Publisher Abstract: In the face of planetary crises -- from biodiversity loss to climate change to food security -- transdisciplinary methods promise effective and just responses through equal collaborations. However, transdisciplinarity also creates complex challenges by bringing together different actors with different frameworks, like scientists, Indigenous and local communities, and policy makers. Successful collaboration among such actors requires navigating different forms of knowledge, worldviews, values, and positions of power. In Transformative Transdisciplinarity, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani synthesize insights from the philosophy of science and empirical action research to address these challenges through a framework of partial overlaps. On the one hand, the framework highlights the overlapping concerns and perspectives of actors that provide common ground for collaboration and mutual understanding. On the other hand, it emphasizes partialities that require navigating differences and tensions between actors. This book addresses the fundamental epistemological, ontological, and political questions of transdisciplinarity through this framework of partial overlaps, aiming for a transformative vision of collaborative science in the face of planetary crises.

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Maracle, L. 2015. Memory Serves. NeWest Press.

Publisher Abstract: Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people. Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremely timely book, not only because it is the first collection of oratories by one of the most important Indigenous authors in Canada, but also because it offers all Canadians, in Maracle's own words, "another way to be, to think, to know," a way that holds the promise of a "journey toward a common consciousness."

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Mignolo, W. 2009. “Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom,” in Theory, Culture & Society 26, pp. 159–181.

Author Abstract: Once upon a time scholars assumed that the knowing subject in the disciplines is transparent, disincorporated from the known and untouched by the geo-political configuration of the world in which people are racially ranked and regions are racially configured. From a detached and neutral point of observation (that Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez describes as the hubris of the zero point), the knowing subject maps the world and its problems, classifies people and projects into what is good for them. Today that assumption is no longer tenable, although there are still many believers. At stake is indeed the question of racism and epistemology. And once upon a time scholars assumed that if you ‘come’ from Latin America you have to ‘talk about’ Latin America; that in such a case you have to be a token of your culture. Such expectation will not arise if the author ‘comes’ from Germany, France, England or the US. As we know: the first world has knowledge, 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 decolonial knowledges, necessary steps for imagining and building democratic, just, and non-imperial/colonial societies.

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Peltier, C. 2018. “An Application of Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous Research Methods With Participatory Action Research” in International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17 (1).

Entry explores the concept of two-eyed seeing as a way of answering call to action from Indigenous people for research methods informed by Indigenous ways of knowing, and that can bridge this with ‘traditional’/colonial academic practices. The author explains their research process as an application of two-eyed seeing, and discusses a number of steps across three phases of the process, the research planning phase, the research implementation phase, the production of knowledge phase, and the action phase. The author concludes with a note about how following a method of two-eyed seeing can transform the traditional/colonialist academy into a space for Indigenous researchers.

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Sanchez-Perez, J. 2024. “Beyond Gatekeeping: Philosophical Sources, Indigenous Philosophy, and the Huarochirí Manuscript,” in Metaphilosophy 55, pp. 365-80.

This paper argues for a broad definition of philosophical sources and how Indigenous traditional knowledge fits that definition. It concludes by showing how, following the previous two points, an Indigenous document such as the Huarochirí Manuscript can be considered a philosophical source by academic philosophers. The paper argues for a particular account of what philosophy is, and defends a conversational approach to philosophy. This approach captures philosophy as practiced in Western (colonial) academic circles, but also includes indigenous knowledge as philosophy. The paper then argues that the Huarochirí Manuscript qualifies as a philosophical source to show that indigenous people have already been doing philosophy. The paper also explores why we should label indigenous philosophy as “indigenous philosophy.”

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Tallbear, K. 2020. “Kim Tallbear: The Polyamorist that Wants to Destroy Sex—Interview by Montserrat Madariaga-Caro.” Original published in Spanish in La Juguera. English translation:http://www.criticalpolyamorist.com/homeblog/kim-tallbear-the-polyamorist-that-wants-to-destroy-sex-interview-by-montserrat-madariaga-caro

Author Abstract: To destroy sexuality as it is known in the Western world is for Kim TallBear the same as revealing an aspect of colonialism that hits us in the most intimate: The imposition of monogamy and singular marriage as a way of domination over the land and its lives. This Dakota thinker, affirms that her practice of polyamory does not focus on sex but on the multiple relationships that she maintains with different human and non-human people. About the current pandemic, she says there are too many monogamists moralizing contact and that it would do us good to learn from polyamorous agreements on risk management.

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Two-Eyed Seeing

https://www.2eyedseeing.ca/about-5

"Two-Eyed Seeing refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing and to using both of these eyes together” - Albert Marshall. Two-Eyed Seeing intentionally and respectfully brings together our different ways of knowing, to motivate people to use all our gifts so we leave the world a better place and do not compromise the opportunities for our youth (Bartlett, Marshall, & Marshall, 2007).

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Unveiling the Essence and Impact of Transdisciplinary Research

Undisciplined Project report from the Research on Research Institute

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27088756

Project Abstract: The entry investigates how research funders define UI, and looks at a variety of ways of defining UI from different funding bodies. The entry posits that “UI” is polysemous, and the authors describe 3 facets of meaning for UI: Academic/non-academic partnerships; values; and societally impactful research outcomes. The entry describes how proposals for UI research can be properly evaluated, which requires institutions to utilize mixed panels with diverse perspectives of expertise and/or stakeholders, in order to counteract biases, ensure balance, and to address power imbalances within panels. The authors also provide recommendations for how funders can support UI projects across different researchers, including providing time for partnerships to develop, providing funding for early stages of projects, and guiding and training for applicants for funding of TDR projects. The authors also discuss how when UI goes wrong, differences between participants become salient over their shared research goal(s)

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Ward, J. 2018. “The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers,” in D. Compton, T. Meadow and K. Schilt (ed.s)Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology, University of California Press, pp. 51-66.

Project Abstract: in this book chapter, Ward explores the “tense but dynamic relationship between sociological methods and queer methods” via an ethnography of their own career trajectory. Ward takes the term “mansplaining” and expands it to capture another form of epistemic arrogance, methodsplaining. Ward explains how queer, trans, and sociologists from other underrepresented groups are often met with skepticism that their methodologies are not “proper sociology.” Ward then details how this supposedly neutral and objective critique is inseparable from conservative political agendas. The result is queer scholars are exiled from sociology.

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Whitehead, J. 2017. Full-Metal Indigiqueer. Talonbooks.

Abridged Publisher Abstract: This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and to reclaim. Following oral tradition (à la Iktomi, Nanaboozho, Wovoka), Zoa infects, invades, and becomes a virus to canonical and popular works in order to re-centre Two-Spirit livelihoods. Zoa world-builds a fourth-dimension, lives in the cyber space, and survives in NDN-time – they have learned to sing the skin back onto their bodies and remain #woke at the end of the world. “Do not read me as a vanished ndn,” they ask, “read me as a ghastly one.” This project follows in the tradition of authors who, Whitehead believes, utilize deconstruction as a means of decolonization. This is a sex-positive project that tirelessly works to create coalition between those who have, as Donna Haraway once noted, “been injured, profoundly.” Zoa stands in solidarity with all qpoc folk who exist as ghosts with intergenerational and colonial phantom pains.

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Zwicky, J. 2015. Alkibiades’ Love. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Publisher Abstract (abridged): Alkibiades, a central character in Plato's Symposium, claims that philosophy touches him to the quick. When Socrates speaks, he's often moved to tears and realizes he must change his life. In Alkibiades' Love, Jan Zwicky demonstrates that this image of philosophy is not anachronistic, but remains the living heart of the discipline. Philosophy can indeed matter to our lives, but for it to do so, we must reconceive the methods that, since the Enlightenment, have dominated its self-image in the West. In these meticulously researched essays, Zwicky argues that analytic and poststructuralist philosophy are not simply fashions in academic discourse, but are manifestations of the technocracy which they sustain and promote. The alternative she develops, by showing it in action, is lyric philosophy - an integrated mode of understanding whose foundations lie in the way we comprehend music and metaphor.

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