Emergent Worlds: Rethinking Knowledge in the Age of Uncertainty

Dr. S. Dhavamanidoss is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Sethu Institute of Technology.
He has a total of 8 years of experience, including 5.5 years of teaching and 2.5 years of industry experience.
He received his B.E. degree in Civil and Structural Engineering with distinction, his M.E. degree in Structural Engineering with distinction, and his Ph.D. in Civil and Structural Engineering from Annamalai University, Annamalainagar.
Dr. Dhavamanidoss has published eight research papers and three book chapters in refereed journals and international conference proceedings. He has also received the Best Presentation Award for his paper presented at an international conference.
His areas of research include sustainable construction, sustainable materials, geopolymer concrete, geopolymer roads, geopolymer landscape elements, and waste management. He is an active member of IEI and AMIEE.

Dr. Neeti Rathore holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and is NET qualified in Education.
She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Zeal College of Engineering and Research, Pune.
Dr. Rathore has 20 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development, research, and pedagogy.

Chapters List

Challenges to dominant paradigms and alternative ways of knowing.

Uncertainty as Epistemic Condition: Rethinking Certainty and Truth
Philosophy, Epistemology
Decolonizing Knowledge: Pluralities of Knowing in a Fractured World
Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Studies
Situated Knowledges Revisited: Embodiment, Ethics, and Evidence
Feminist Theory, Science and Technology Studies
Unknowing as Method: Embracing Opacity, Silence, and Mystery
Philosophy of Science, Anthropology
The Algorithmic Gaze: Automation, Prediction, and Epistemic Authority
Digital Studies, Critical Data Studies
Cognitive Machines and Emergent Epistemologies in Computer Science
Computer Science, AI Ethics

How crises and complexity alter knowledge systems.

The Pandemic Epistemic Shift: What COVID-19 Taught Us About Knowing
Health Humanities, Sociology of Knowledge
Online first: Ecologies of Ignorance: Climate Change and the Politics of Not-Knowing
Environmental Studies, Political Science
Knowledge in Crisis: Truth, Trust, and the Public Sphere
Media Studies, Political Communication
Science on Trial: Expertise and Skepticism in the Age of Conspiracy
Science Communication, Sociology
Broken Futures: The Epistemology of Collapse
Futures Studies, Systems Theory
Strategic Uncertainty: Decision-Making and Knowledge in Commerce and Management
Management Studies, Behavioral Economics

Alternative models and collaborative practices in knowledge creation.

Speculative Thinking as a Tool for Reworlding
Futures Studies, Critical Theory
Commons-Based Knowledge: Open Science, Open Culture, Open Worlds
Knowledge Commons, Digital Ethics
Art as Inquiry: Aesthetics, Imagination, and Epistemic Resistance
Art Theory, Philosophy of Knowledge
Civic Science and Participatory Epistemologies
Citizen Science, Policy Studies
Ritual, Myth, and the Sacred: Beyond Rationalist Models of Meaning
Religious Studies, Anthropology

The future of knowledge systems and institutional transformation.

Postdisciplinarity: Breaking Boundaries in Knowledge Production
Philosophy of Education, Interdisciplinary Studies
Epistemic Justice in a Planetary Frame
Global Studies, Ethics
Reimagining Institutions: Universities in the Age of Uncertainty
Higher Education Studies, Sociology
Learning from the Margins: Subaltern Voices and Epistemic Agency
Decolonial Theory, Social Justice Education
Toward Emergent Epistemologies: Building Knowing Worlds Otherwise
Philosophy, Cultural Theory