Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality

In this commentary, I engage with Matthew Hannah's call to foster greater humility and trust across disciplinary divides and epistemic cultures. Hannah's thoughtful and generative work on the purpose, function, and value of hoaxing in academia has inspired the following reflections on how such critical interventions could contribute to the expression of decolonial politics and the expansion of epistemic pluriversality. In foregrounding perspectives that centre the importance of unthinking mastery and cultivating pedagogies of relationality, I suggest that fostering humility in higher education is only possible when we begin to shed personal and institutional arrogance, opting instead to cultivate ties and relations with(in) insider, outsider, and liminal epistemic communities.