Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose...

some islamic traditions have described women as “lacking in intellect”. these traditions have been encountered with various implications and reactions and caused debates in scholarly arenas and many writings have been written concerning this topic. we see three reactions to these traditions: some denied their issuance; some maintained women‘s lack of intellect by accepting those traditions; and...

What do we mean when use the category ‘indigenous knowledges’? speak of ‘colonial sciences’? This Introduction briefly examines these questions in order to provide a context for collection articles presented this issue on making sciences colonial South Asia. In doing so, it also addresses related questions: The translation terms – does Sanskrit word śāstra correspond English science? If not, wh...

Post-modernism and recent critical theory has sought to deconstruct the role of particular ‘Great Traditions’ and ‘Grand Narratives’ as privileged accounts of world affairs, contemporary and historical. In spite of this, such narratives, even if poorly understood, remain at the heart of much public debate and continue to shape national and global policies. These traditions, linked to elements o...