How do we begin to think about the world?

Asking ‘how do we think’ might sound like a crazy question, but actually it is profoundly political. This chapter explains why thinking is political and outlines how it is political, whilst drawing attention to how certain ways of thinking can dominate or displace other ways of thinking. This chapter focuses on Indigenous experiences in Patagonia, which is a geographical region in southern Argentina and Chile. It examines how Western ways of being and knowing the world justified colonialism and capitalist domination. At the same time, this chapter considers how Indigenous knowledges challenge dominant ways of thinking about the world, including the relationship between humans and nature.