Introduction

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Abstract This chapter introduces the communities of Siribinha and Poças in Brazil and Forikrom in Ghana as the main sites of the transdisciplinary research discussed in the book. While introducing Siribinha and Poças, the chapter highlights the contested character of modernity in disenfranchized rural communities of the Global South. While modernity often produces violence in the communities, the people of Siribinha and Poças have no interest in returning to premodern times. Forikrom illustrates the importance of navigating contested modernities through transdisciplinary approaches that highlight Indigenous knowledge but also draw on modern academic knowledge when beneficial for the communities. The complexity of navigating contested modernities and transdisciplinary knowledge production motivates a positive vision of “community-based philosophy” that contributes to mediating these challenges in practice.

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