All the articles are related this week in that they question the role of educators, given that they are functioning within an institution that, in a lot of ways, reproduces the same problematic dominant ideology that justifies inequality. Institutions and academia largely don’t see the value in what Patricia Hill Collins calls subjective knowledge or knowledge that is suppressed or excluded from mainstream knowledge because of its power to disrupt mainstream narratives and ideologies (similar to what Hall was getting at in the interview piece). Earlier in the semester, we talked about how some scholars feel like cultural studies should not be housed in academia because of how limiting it is, but for the educators that are in academia who do want to use this field as a way to introduce counter-narratives, how could we do this, especially with the recent attacks on subjugated knowledge. How are we to challenge the very same power systems that we participate in? The Guriux article points out this timely issue, but I still feel like I don’t have an answer; I just know it is critical.
This is more of a general question, but how might we be able to critically engage with common sense on the micro, meso, and macro level to uncover alternative forms of knowledge and challenge dominant ideologies?
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