Farming Made Her Stupid

Bibliographic Data

ID22932248
AuthorsLisa Heldke (0000-0003-0938-2351, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume21
Issue3
Pages151-165
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01118.x
OpenAlexW1973110786
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited2

This essay is an examination of stupid knowing, an attempt to catalog a particular species of knowing, and to understand when, how, and why the label “stupid” gets applied to marginalized groups of knowers. Heldke examines the ways the defining processes work and the conditions that make them possible, by considering one group of people who get defined as stupid: rural people. In part, the author intends her identification and categorization of stupid knowing to support the work of theorists of resistance who have identified ways that those marginalized as stupid knowers use the cloak of their purported stupidity in the aid of their resistance. Heldke also hopes to add to the existing critique of the hierarchies of knowing an understanding of one particular way one form of knowledge is devalued: stupidification. Why are some forms of knowledge actually regarded as leaving one incapable of other forms of rational thought?

Categorization · Epistemology · Identification (biology) · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Stupidity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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