ABSTRACT
This chapter assumes that indigenization of knowledge consists of creatively adapting concepts, methods, and approaches to a culture different to that where such concepts, methods, and approaches were created. Personal pathways into social sciences are carved in very specific social, historical, and geopolitical contexts. In social sciences and humanities, it is a mistake to think in terms of universal knowledge beyond any cultural differences. The knowledge divide can be seen as a historical consequence of the global dynamics of capitalism, dividing the world into the core and the peripheries. Given the asymmetrical hierarchy the Indigenous maintain with the non-Indigenous, the complex world of unfair subordination is reproduced and the dominion the colonizer holds over the colonized appear as eternal 'naturalized' social relationships that are difficult to destroy. Globalized knowledge means, particularly in social science research, domination of Anglo-American legacies, concepts, and methodologies over the peripheral world with their potentially innovative own conceptual legacies and Indigenous epistemologies.
