May 2026

The Coloniality of Knowledge and the Autonomous Knowledge Tradition — Syed Farid Alatas — Citation Alatas, S.F. (2024), The Coloniality of Knowledge and the Autonomous Knowledge Tradition. Sociology Compass, 18: e13256. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13256 An autonomous social science tradition is one in which knowledge creation takes place amidst consciousness of the psychological and structural obstacles that mental

An Ecological Framework for Knowledge: ‘Multiversity’, Decolonization, and the Academic Disciplines [published as “The West and the Rest”, Humanscape April 2005] Vinay Lal   The world as we know it today is understood largely through categories that are the product of Western knowledge systems and the academic disciplines that have been charged with codifying, organizing,

The Multiversity Enterprise by Claude Alvares Penang, 2002 A few months ago, at the request of Haji Mohamed Idris, President of the Third World Network, I prepared a brief note on the need to overthrow the present day “educational system” represented everywhere on the planet by the familiar structures of school and college. In most

The Launch of Multiversity Inaugural speech of S.M. Mohd Idris Penang, Malaysia, February 2002 On behalf of Citizens International, I welcome you warmly to Malaysia, to Penang, and to the discussions which, we hope, will lead to the launch of Multiversity. The idea of the Multiversity Project may not be entirely new. It has emerged