Emancipatory Concepts for Newer Understanding – A View from the Periphery

Abstract

The present that we dwell in gets constituted by varied institutional and ideological fixations that shape our views, rationalities, desires, and they also condition the way we perceive our realities. We live in a society where commercial wealth gets acclaimed, destructive power gets sought, markets become the priority, and experts rationalise. In the current global structure, we see the establishment of fixed regimes that, through various ways, perpetuate a myth that the existing state of global condition is but natural. Even if one is a firm believer in the current global neoliberal structure, the question arises; who decides what is ideal in the first place? The authors here discuss the need for emancipation from existing practices. We move forward by tinkering with the term emancipation and following a nomadic reflexive methodology. The article looks at the historical conditions that necessitated the desire for emancipation and the various concepts developed in the quest for emancipation. The concepts mentioned can be used as a stepping stone and function as threshold concepts for those from diverse educational backgrounds.