ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what role the current division of scientific labor has played in the construction of the order of daily activities as researchers. It focuses on Indigenous knowledges and the ways to move to other conceptual coordinate's concerns and questions. Using a Mexican example, the chapter illustrates the effects of such ideas on the division of scientific labor in the context of globalized knowledge. Globalized knowledge means, in the field of qualitative research in particular, domination of Anglo-American legacies, concepts, and methodologies over the peripheral world with their own potentially innovative conceptual legacies and Indigenous epistemologies. The chapter points out the narratives that are told about the history and development of qualitative research are deeply grounded in the experience of North America. Developing autochthonous research methods is decisive to overcome the epistemic. The chapter analyses the hidden and deep epistemic violence nested in the current division of scientific labor worldwide.
