Reimagining Knowledge Production for a World in Crisis

Abstract

The launch of a new interdisciplinary journal comes at a juncture when multiple planetary crises are being played out. The deepening climate crisis, accelerating biodiversity loss, fresh water stress, pervasive pollution, wars and occupation, social deprivations and growing inequity, reflect a breakdown of the prevailing model of development and the inherent inability of the global institutional structures to prevent these from happening. These interconnected crises are systemic, rooted as they are in economic paradigms, power structures, and cultural assumptions that have treated ecological limits as externalities and marginalized ways of knowing that fall outside the dominant western frameworks. Generation of knowledge to comprehend and address these crises transcending the conventional disciplinary boundaries is, therefore, important and so is the communication of the knowledge. Hence this journal has special significance