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knowledge and to judging claims made on its behalf) ... and to
assist in the necessary rectification of this situation.
It short, this became a process that would help develop a mission
statement on the emancipation, development, integration and protection
of IKS; where emancipation is a necessary precondition for its
integration with other knowledge systems; and protection is a strategy of
vigilance against exploitation by dominant world orders.
Protection had then to be defined both as negative, and as positive
protection where the first is protection from the “wolves” out there, and
the latter is the incubatory protection that would enable the weak and the
vulnerable knowledges to regain their strength and capability to
incubate, develop tools for critical self-evaluation in the light of
changing global situations, as well as the terms under which it can
dialogue or refuse to engage with others.
10.4 What this Effort Enables in Scholarly Terms
- 4.1 It enables us to move the frontiers of discourse and
understanding in the sciences as a whole, and open new moral
and cognitive spaces within which constructive dialogue and
engagement for sustainable development can begin. - It also enables us to “clear space” in order to enable new issues in
science development to be generated and fostered and thus
determine new directions for the philosophy and sociology, as
well as political economy of the sciences. - IKS enables us to begin to understand the political economy of
“Othering, thus permitting us to begin to develop a clearer sense
of the ethical and juridical domain within which science works. - It enables the articulation of IKS as a system of knowledge
whose intrinsic efficiency and efficacy as tools for personal,