Keeping a pace with knowledge: towards a new praxis for the human survival

Abstract (English)

The understanding of the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), attributed to the long-resident people across the globe have found in literatures. Nevertheless, these ‘people’ do not put any hyphen between human and plant relationship by virtue of the position on the apex of the animal kingdom. The accountability of TEK bestows on the ‘people’ to sustain their embedded life facilitated by the presence of diversified plants to be duly undisturbed by the unrelenting cross-cultural and cross-situational collaborations in the guise of the commercial encroachment. This is a thought-provoking proposal that probes how the kinetics of TEK is critically analysed in social science perspectives and how the hidden treasures of plant serve the purpose of their sustainable life over subsequent generations that entails its differential meanings in alignment with the scientific interpretation and policy matters. The published literatures spark the controversies brew over the definitions of TEK emerge out through the etic understanding enrich with the assumptions have hardly any authenticity. We converge our opinion into kinetics of TEK and the contextuality of TEK with the understanding of biology and ecology at the backdrop of anthropological arguments to investigate the evolutionary importance of TEK, its analogy with science, and, interpreting TEK through the lens of science to spark a debate amongst the scientists of different disciplines, policy makers on definition of TEK, good governance issues, and source-resource conflict. In light of such debate, the present paper deals with the argument that TEK per se should be thought as a collaborative concept i.e. mutual tutorial praxis. It serves to invoke collaborators of both (long-residents and urban residents) the side to continually learn from one another how each assumption approaches the body of knowledge of TEK and modern science as a learning procedures to deliver the appropriate action plan to reduce the climate breakdown for the survival of humankind.