This article explores the concept of maroonage (other spellings “maronage,” “marronnage,” and “marronage”) as a process of epistemological engagement and disengagement using the way in which the Rastafari movement constructs, organizes, and legitimates knowledge and knowledge production. By focusing on the Rastafari processes of knowledge production and legitimation, this article allows for a theorization of maroonage as a constant engagement not only in the sense of physical withdrawal from hegemonic systems of dominance but an ideological opting out. While many Rastafarians live in secluded communities and choose not to participate in systems that work against their interest, many have renegotiated the process of knowing such that they can be in Babylon but not of Babylon. The epistemic shifts in Rastafari discourse on a Black God, King, and Zion stand as exemplars of epistemological self-determination characteristic of the maroonage on the ideological level. The article develops by: (a) looking at ideology, (b) the contours of Rastafari epistemology, (c) the sociopolitical context of epistemological (dis) engagement, and (d) the epistemic shift in Rastafari discourse on a Black God, King, and Zion as epistemological self-determination.

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解放思想：Rastafari和作为认识论（Dis）参与的Maroonage理论

本文使用Rastafari运动建构，组织并合法化知识和知识生产的方式，探讨了认识论的概念（其他拼写为“ maronage”，“ marronnage”和“ marronage”），作为认识论参与和脱离接触的过程。通过关注Rastafari的知识生产和合法化过程，本文允许将栗色理论作为一种持续参与的理论，不仅是从霸权体系中物理撤离，而且是意识形态上的选择。尽管许多拉斯塔法尔人生活在僻静的社区中，并选择不参加不利于他们利益的制度，但许多人重新谈判了知道自己可以在巴比伦而不是在巴比伦的过程。拉斯塔法里（Rastafari）话语中关于黑人上帝，国王，锡安和锡安在思想层面上代表了褐变的认识论自我决定特征。这篇文章的发展之处包括：（a）研究意识形态，（b）Rastafari认识论的轮廓，（c）认识论（dis）参与的社会政治背景，以及（d）Rastafari关于黑人上帝国王的论述中的认识论转变。和锡安作为认识论的自决。