community knowledge

TOWARDS A DE-ARTIFICATION OF CULTURAL PRACTICES IN INDIA: Critical engagement with imitating western conceptualization (Draft note)  p. k. sasidharan The question of de-artification arises in the cultural context of India wherein imitating western conceptualization seems to have become a naturalized way of cultural imagination. Artification of culture forms part of greater enslavement and has become a deep-rooted problem to be laid bare and tackled. De-artification as an intellectual strategy of engaging with the process and affirmations (imitations) of artification need not be free from the complex situations of subtle enslavement. Rather, it emerges from the identification and critical sensitivity of artification as a problem to be confronted. The problem of artification is primarily understood here as a tendency of cultural reduction involved in the western ways of understand...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OH1gvNN2WxDjk4BHTOO_lhY--73bZQVi/view?usp=sharing COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE: DOES IT REQUIRE ANY VALIDATION AT ALL? (draft)   p. k.  Sasidharan     Knowledge Problematic and its wider context :     ‘What is knowledge?’, ‘What is the method of deciding truth of knowledge?’, and “what is the procedure for realising liberative potential of knowledge’? ‘Can knowledge be experienced and transmitted?’ These are some of the questions that seem to have been troubling philosophers, scientists, seers, and intellectuals of all times and civilisations. Definitions and explanations for the status of true/valid knowledge are very characteristic to the disciplines of philosophy and science, and yet, the knowledge-debate remains to be unending. Ideological, institutional, ethnic, cultural, religious, affiliation and identity of knowledge forms are some of the critical issues being debated in the contemporary intellec...

PUBLICATION PROJECT FOR COMPILING BOOK-SERIES ON TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE Objectives: The purpose of this project is to compile, edit, reproduce and translate texts and other source materials, including studies, related to various indigenous/traditional knowledge practices in South India. It is to make a creative critical intervention in the indifferent attitude that prevails among scholars and the general public, towards traditional knowledge practices, and thereby generate discourses and public interest conducive for enlivening, retrieving, and upgrading them, which have already been strained in various ways. Definition: The community knowledge signifies those ideas and skills that are embedded in different living or livelihood practices of the community of people.  Community knowledge, as a contrast to the institutionalized formal knowledge embodies collective ownership that has been shared by generations of people through the process of adapting and modify...