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Paper short abstract

We attempt to understand the critical process of challenging and transforming the dominance of imperialism-driven knowledge systems by recognizing, valuing and integrating indigenous, local and marginalized ways of doing, knowing, thinking, producing and democratically disseminating knowledge.

Paper long abstract

Knowledge is often legitimized in the context of the alliance between the State and market by pushing society to the margins. The dialectical relationship between the production and certification of knowledge, on the one hand, and its application and dissemination, on the other should be examined against the backdrop of the nature of the state itself, the location of the state within the matrix of a class-divided society and the relationship of the state with various contending social forces. The state is, rather, thought of as an entity that stands outside and above society, an autonomous agency that is invested with an independent source of rationality, and the capability to initiate and pursue programmes of development in a linear fashion. There is an explicit and/or implicit disjunction between the State and society, slurring over questions about the social foundations of political power and the making of public policy. The categorical imperative lies in the critical process of challenging and transforming the dominance of imperialism-driven knowledge systems by recognizing, valuing and integrating indigenous, local and marginalized ways of doing, knowing, thinking and producing knowledge that were hitherto suppressed by colonialism, aiming for epistemic justice and diverse knowledge creation and dissemination.