Selected Panel / Panel Seleccionado

Transcending Disciplinary Divides: alternative approaches to decolonizing ways of knowing, being, valuing, and doing in research and teaching

Abstract (English)
Ours are times of compounded crises and precarity as indicated by increasing climate disasters, forced displacement, rising fascism, and violence around the world. We are surrounded by events and a 'knowledge economy' that plot our own annihilation. Infowars and the manipulation of narratives further confuse people’s notions of what is and is not real. In this context, the very role and significance of the university becomes multifold. While on the one hand, there is an increasing call and need for decolonizing academia, on the other, there is an incessant attack on the very existence of academia by defunding and through the capture of knowledge systems. In this milieu, an interdisciplinary approach in scholarship and education is vital to build greater awareness of our own onto-epistemic assumptions and to nullify the self-imposed division of labour between experts and non-experts, between the public masses and the private laboratory, between the field and the community. This allows for expanding and constructing collective knowledge that benefits a common good with a politics of care that empowers a joyous thriving. Another way of knowledge production is possible. It includes sciences, humanities, and arts consistent with political considerations and a knowledge which is shared. This panel brings together scholars from diverse fields to present work that rests on this understanding. We will address the emergent need to theorize and develop frameworks for cohabiting this planet from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to, philosophy, decolonial scholarship, Indigenous studies, communication studies, anthropology, and education. We will present our individual research and practice to collectively discuss how transcending disciplinary divides enriches both our personal and collective ways of being, valuing, knowing, thinking-feeling, and doing.
Keywords (Ingles)
Liberatory education; alternative epistemologies; interdisciplinary scholarship & teaching; decolonizing practices.
panelists
    Charlotte Sáenz

    Nationality: Mexico

    Residence: United States

    California Institute of Integral Studies

    Presence:Face to Face/ On Site

    sreedhar nemmani

    Nationality: India

    Residence: United States

    Temple University, USA

    Presence:Face to Face/ On Site

    Dilraba Anayatova

    Nationality: Kazakhstan

    Residence: Kazakhstan

    Presence:Face to Face/ On Site

    Dra. María Elena Martínez

    Nationality: Mexico

    Residence: Mexico

    Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropololy CIESAS, Sureste

    Presence:Face to Face/ On Site

commenters
    Rajkumar Jackson Singh

    Nationality: India

    Residence: India

    Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Presence:Online