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Call for Papers: Resisting Intellectual Imperialism and Epistemic Violence: Towards Autonomous Knowledge Production

The Decolonial Studies Program of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies welcomes abstracts for the online international conference, “Resisting Intellectual Imperialism and Epistemic Violence: Towards Autonomous Knowledge Production” which will be held from 9–10 November 2024 via Zoom.

About the Conference

This conference invites thinkers and activists to contribute work that advances our understanding of intellectual imperialism, academic dependency, epistemic violence, and that suggests interventions paving the way to epistemic justice and autonomous knowledge production.

What are the specific ways in which intellectual imperialism, academic dependency, white supremacy, and global academic power structures impact subalternized academics and knowledge production, and how does this manifest in the knowledge that is being produced? What are the strategies that we can use to resist and dismantle problematic structures? How can we ensure that the subaltern can speak and is heard? What specifically would be the characteristics of true epistemic justice and true autonomous knowledge production?

In particularly, the conference welcomes submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

    • Intellectual imperialism and academic dependency
    • Power structures in knowledge production
    • Political economy of academic production
    • Coloniality of knowledge and eurocentric and white supremacist biases in knowledge
    • How knowledge production is racialized and colonized
    • Epistemic extractivism and appropriation of knowledge
    • Epistemic sexism and epistemic racism
    • Knowledge born out of struggles
    • Knowledge production and education in social movements
    • Language, coloniality, and knowledge production
    • Production, dissemination, and intergenerational transfer of Indigenous knowledges
    • The potentials and pitfalls of knowledge co-production between the academe and the grassroots
    • Autonomous academic communication and communities
    • Autonomous knowledge production
    • Strategies for de-metrification and dismantling rankings

Submission Guidelines and Other Details

For submission guidelines and other details please visit the Conference Page @ the website of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

For queries, please email [email protected].

The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) was established in 2019 to interrogate coloniality and the ongoing effects of colonialism in the Global South. The program examines how neocolonial relationships with the Global North continue to shape institutions and lives in areas like resource allocation, trade, and culture, hindering the Global South’s potential for liberation. Visit the DSP’s website and download FREE publications. The DSP is one of the 16 Research Programs of UP CIDS, the policy research unit of the University of the Philippines. Visit the CIDS database and download 1000+ publications!